The Sunday afternoon encounter marks the city’s second fatal police shooting in a week; the police auditor says his office was abruptly barred access to the shooting scene.

San Jose Police said they suspect that the man officers fatally shot on Sunday had killed his child and called 911 to get into a deadly confrontation with police.

A man who allegedly stabbed his 9-year-old son to death in a San Jose park and was subsequently killed by police intended to die via “suicide by cop,” San Jose Police Chief Paul Joseph said Monday. Mateusz Dzierbun of Fremont allegedly killed his son then called 911 posing as a “hysterical” witness to ask that