The family of a teenager having a mental health crisis who called 911 in Sunnyvale last year and who was shot dead after walking toward an officer while holding a knife has launched a federal ...

(Police) never attempted to de-escalate the situation or to use non-lethal force, or to use any other method that might have avoided this needless loss of a young man’s life,” ...

SUNNYVALE — The family of a young man shot to death by Sunnyvale police at a mobile home park last year contends in a new lawsuit that the officer acted incorrectly and didn’t need to fire at ...

Sunnyvale police released a new video on Friday of the fatal officer shooting last week of a man carrying a knife. The suspect, identified as 19-year-old Emmanuel Perez Becerra, called 911 on ...

The Source: Information for this story comes from the attorney representing the family of Emanuel Perez Becerra, as well as from the Sunnyvale Police Department.

An Oakland-based attorney on Wednesday filed a federal Civil Rights suit against the Sunnyvale Dept. of Public Safety in connection to a fatal officer-involved shooting 10 months earlier.