The San Francisco man who authorities said had stabbed someone an hour before he was killed in a barrage of police gunfire Wednesday, was identified Thursday as Mario Woods, the San Francisco Examiner reports.

San Francisco police Sgt. Michael Andraychak said Woods, 26, ignored commands to drop a knife in the Bayview on Wednesday, and that he appeared to approach an officer even after being shot several times with nonlethal beanbags filled with lead pellets.

A graphic video, posted to Instagram, appears to show the seconds before a crowd of San Francisco police officers opens fire on the stumbling man.

Shawn Richard, a spokesman for Woods’ mother, Gwendolyn Woods, and an anti-violence activist with the organization Brothers Against Guns, told the Examiner that Woods was a documented gang member recently out of prison, who was due to begin a new job with UPS. “He was just trying to do the right thing,” Richard said.

“The family is like, they’re lost for words. The mom simply can’t believe that her son was shot that many times and he did not pose a threat. He never pointed the knife in their direction.”

According to the Associated Press, both the San Francisco police department and the San Francisco district attorney’s office are investigating the shooting. Five officers have been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation.

Update 9:15 p.m.

What appears to be another video of the shooting has been posted to Twitter.

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