A passenger on a Florida-bound Greyhound bus was shot and killed by police after running onto a major freeway in Atlanta while armed with a knife, authorities said.
The shooting happened shortly after 1 a.m. Thursday on Interstate 75 south of downtown Atlanta. Police said officers were initially responding to a call reporting a person stabbed on a Greyhound bus.
Officers made repeated attempts to disarm the man, but he continued to walk into the path of cars and trucks in the southbound lanes of the interstate, police said.
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