WASHINGTON - D.C. police officers shot and killed a man Monday who refused to drop two knives he was carrying, according to police and witnesses.

Officers were called to the 1700 block Trenton Place SE after a man called 911 and said, "I just killed my sister."

The arriving officers found the man believed to be the caller in the middle of the street, holding a knife in each hand. He was identified as 50--year-old Robert McFaulin.

"There were commands given for the man to drop the knives, somehow he approached the officers and he was shot," said MPD Assistant Chief Mike Anzallo.

McFaulin was pronounced dead at a hospital.

One witness challenged the police version of events. She said she watched the entire incident from her porch.

"You got three cops with guns on him. He's standing in the middle of the street with his arms out like this," said the witness, who declined to be identified, spreading her arms wide. "When the young lady comes from behind him, I said, 'Oh, she got him.' I think that she going to contain him. When his sister came out, told him to drop the knives, that's when he dropped the knives and that's when he got shot, gunned down. And then the lady shot her gun twice."

Police say they located McFaulin's sister, who was unharmed.

Investigators say they have no idea why McFaulin would have placed the 911 call, allegedly claiming to have murdered his sister.

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