Minneapolis police shoot man wielding knife

A Minneapolis police officer shot and wounded a man who was threatening him with a knife Sunday morning in south Minneapolis, the Star Tribune said.

The officer ordered the man to drop the weapon, but he refused and approached the officer in a threatening manner as the officer backed up across two lanes of traffic.

The man kept approaching, but the officer shot him due to the threat for his own safety and the safety of the public. The officer then immediately called the paramedics to treat the man.

The man was later identified as Robert John Yellow Wolf, 43.