Knife in his hand after the shooting. We spoke to one witness that says the man did not have a knife in hand. We saw the knife after he fell and hit the ground. Thats when the knife fell out from underneath his shirt and hit the cement. Police were first called to the homeless encampment thursday morning after a Homeless Outreach team encountered a man with a knife. The medical examiner said the 45yearold man died at the hospital. Another witness would not go on camera. Afraid to but he did see a knife in the mans hand but did not believe it was threatening. Frank. In this case, police to be fair to say regardless of whether he was swinging the knife around just the very nature of having a knife is threatening. You showed that pick. How big was it. Based on that picture, what we were able to see it looked like it was maybe about 12 or 13inches from the handle to the end of the blade. That was a small knife. You can go to ktvu. Com and click the link at the top of the home page or scrol