Overview
- Officers responded just after 12:18 a.m. to reports of a man swinging a crowbar at vehicles in the Corona Hills Marketplace parking lot near McKinley Street and Promenade Avenue.
- Police say the man was armed with a metal tire iron, refused repeated commands to drop it, and approached officers before two of them opened fire.
- Despite life‑saving efforts, the man was pronounced dead at the scene and his identity has not been released.
- Authorities say the man had crashed his sedan into a pickup moments earlier, and the pickup’s driver was hospitalized with moderate injuries.
- The Riverside County Sheriff’s Force Investigations Detail, the county District Attorney’s Office, and Corona police are investigating, and witnesses are asked to contact Detective Wade Arens at 951-817-5767 or Wade.Arens@CoronaCA.gov.