SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO – Authorities on Tuesday identified a man shot and killed by officers a day earlier in South San Francisco as 60-year-old Brian Joseph Montana. Montana was identified in an update that included other details about the shooting in the 300 block of Arroyo Circle.

The founding guitarist of an influential Bay Area death metal band was shot and killed by police in South San Francisco this week following a tense standoff. Brian Montana, of the band Possessed, was identified by the South San Francisco Police Department as the armed suspect who opened fire on a neighbor and later at responding officers,

A man who was fatally shot by police in South San Francisco earlier this week has been identified as a onetime guitarist for a Bay Area death metal band.