NORTH COAST, Calif. – On Saturday morning Sonoma County Sheriff's deputies shot to death a stabbing suspect who allegedly charged them with the knife he had used to assault a woman a short time earlier.

The deadly confrontation occurred shortly after 7:30 a.m. Saturday, according to a Sonoma County Sheriff's Office report.

The suspect who was shot to death was not immediately identified by law enforcement.

Windsor Police – which is staffed by Sonoma County Sheriff's Office personnel – dispatched officers at approximately 7:29 a.m. to a stabbing in front of Starbucks, located at 1001 McClellan Drive on the Windsor Town Green, the report said.

Officials said the responding deputies were on scene in less than two minutes and attended the 60-year-old female stabbing victim.

Witnesses reported the male suspect ran north from the Town Green toward the Windsor Police Department parking lot.

There, two deputies confronted the suspect, who was armed with a knife. The report said the suspect refused the deputies' orders to drop the weapon and instead began stabbing himself.

Sheriff's officials said one deputy deployed a Taser on the suspect, but it had no effect.

The suspect then charged the deputies with the knife, at which point the two deputies shot the man, the sheriff's office said.

The man was given medical aid, however, he was pronounced dead at the scene at approximately 7:38 a.m., according to the report.

Both of the deputies involved in this incident have more than 15 years of law enforcement experience, the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office reported.

The Santa Rosa Police Department and the Sonoma County District Attorney's Office are investigating the officer-involved shooting under Sonoma County's officer-involved shooting protocol, sheriff's officials said.