Man shot by police at Morgan Hill Safeway after allegedly attacking someone at store

MORGAN HILL, Calif. (KGO) -- A man attacked a person with a weapon at a Morgan Hill Safeway on Friday, police said. The 40-year-old man from Southern California was then shot by responding officers and suffered non-life threatening injuries.

Usual customers had no idea what to expect when they saw unfamiliar police tape surrounding the parking lot.

"I saw the yellow tape, I thought parking lot work or something," Morgan Hill resident Robby Basati said. "But this is our neighborhood grocery store. I come here often, so it's kind of surprising to see."

There was no Friday morning shopping at the Safeway on East Dunne Avenue in Morgan Hill.

Customers we spoke with could not believe the situation got to this point.

"Just what's going through people's minds?" Morgan Hill resident Scott Hert asked. "What's going on with people that they have to go to that drastic measure that they feel like they have no way out rather than have an altercation, especially when the police were involved, that they would escalate it to a police officer."

The man was arrested for multiple felony violations according to police, including assault with a deadly weapon, resisting arrest and assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer.

Our cameras were there as what appeared to be evidence was taken from the store and put into the back of a police car.

This Safeway is considered to be safe, but this was not the first time the store had been in the news.

"We're a very quiet town, I mean we hardly have any criminal action here," Morgan Hill resident Diane Ray said. "We haven't had a problem here in a long time, that I know of. The last time was the person that was arrested for the Sierra Lamar (kidnapping). I guess he used to work here."

Since that time, no other issues that customers could think of.

Safeway told us in a statement that they were fully cooperating with Morgan Hill police during the investigation.

Just before 2 p.m. Friday afternoon, the crime tape around the store was removed and life returned to a feeling of normal - after was what was anything but a normal day in Morgan Hill.