LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. officials say authorities were forced to release a foreigner before he was shot by police on Los Angeles' Skid Row because no country would take him.

The officials said Wednesday that France issued travel documents for a man identified as Charley Saturmin Robinet but rescinded them in 2013 after determining it was an assumed name.

The man later told authorities he was from Cameroon and gave a different name, but officials from the African country there didn't respond to attempts by U.S. immigration officials to reach them.

Under a Supreme Court ruling, U.S. immigration officials cannot hold people indefinitely.

The information is provided by two U.S. officials with knowledge of the case who spoke on condition of anonymity because the information has not been made public.