Officers engaged in verbal de-escalation for over an hour as they tried to negotiate the suspect's surrender,
A SWAT team had been called in and was 'on scene and preparing to deploy' when an officer shot the boy.
Officers recovered a replica firearm from the scene, the police statement said.
The shooting is being investigated by the California Department of Justice, which independently probes all fatal police shootings of unarmed civilians.
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