A Sacramento County sheriff’s deputy fatally shot a knife-wielding man on July 15 after he attacked a 63-year-old woman and her 26-year-old daughter in a residential garage on Diablo Drive. The suspect, identified as Faryeshyi Allahdin, had earlier caused a disturbance at a nearby Starbucks before fleeing and randomly attacking the women, who had no known connection to him.
A deputy searching the area witnessed the stabbing in progress and intervened with gunfire, stopping the attack within seconds. Both victims survived with serious but stable injuries; no deputies were harmed. The sheriff’s office released details of the incident as part of a critical incident debrief.
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SACRAMENTO, CA — A Sacramento County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a knife-wielding suspect on the morning of Wednesday, July 15, as the man was actively stabbing a 26-year-old woman who had just pulled him off her 63-year-old mother inside the garage of a residence on Diablo Drive, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office.
The sheriff’s office laid out the sequence in a critical incident debrief it released on its official social media accounts. At approximately 6:30 a.m., its Communications Center received a call reporting that a transient adult male was causing a disturbance at the Starbucks at Elkhorn Boulevard and Diablo Drive. Employees said the suspect was behind the store counter armed with a kitchen knife. They hid in the back room and waited for law enforcement.
When deputies arrived, the suspect had already fled. Deputies canvassed the area for him. Minutes later, one deputy saw a man matching the description walking on Diablo Drive. As the deputy drove toward him, the suspect ran across the street. The deputy closed the distance. The man ran into the open garage of a residence in the 5700 block.
Inside that garage, a 63-year-old woman was getting into her vehicle. The suspect stabbed and cut her numerous times. Her 26-year-old daughter heard the screams and saw him on top of her mother. She pushed him off. The sheriff’s office said that shove saved her mother from further attack. The suspect then turned on the daughter and stabbed and cut her numerous times.
The deputy witnessed the attack, which the sheriff’s office said unfolded within seconds, and drove straight into the driveway. The suspect was still actively stabbing the daughter. The deputy fired his handgun. The suspect was struck. Additional deputies arrived and began life-saving measures on the suspect and both women. Fire personnel pronounced the suspect dead at the scene. The mother and daughter were taken to a local hospital, where they were listed in serious but stable condition. No deputies were injured.
This was not a civilian defensive gun use but the principle is the one I write about every week. A man with a knife was on top of two women in a garage, and nothing stopped him until someone with a gun arrived and used it. The employees hid. The daughter shoved. The deputy shot. Two of those three things kept people alive, and only one of them ended the threat.
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The sheriff’s office identified the suspect as Faryeshyi Allahdin. Investigators believe the victims were random and had no known connection to him.
Random is the part that should shape the mindset of anyone who carries. There was no argument to walk away from and no dispute to de-escalate. A woman was getting into her car at 6:30 in the morning. The attacker chose her, and then he chose her daughter. Neither woman controlled whether the attack came, and it went from first cut to a deputy’s gunfire in seconds. The only reason it ended there is that an armed man happened to be close enough to see it. Most people picked at random will not have a deputy pulling into the driveway. The question to settle before that morning is what you would have in your hands if it were you.
