with just a statement to the
family and the loved ones of the
individual who is deceased toni.
We certainly express our
heartfelt condolences.
Our job is unfortunately full oa
lot of death and but it doesn'tr
become routine to us and we reae
there is a hurting family right.
And a group of friends that
are mourning this evening.
And we mourn with them.
And we just want the family and
the friends and the loved ones o
know that they're in our prayers
and they're in our thoughts.
And they will continue to
be over the coming weeks.
Earlier this afternoon,
just before 4:00 o'clock,
our 911 center received a dispatch of an
assault on a female by a male subject.
That subject was said to be armed with
a firearm and officers were dispatched
as that dispute continued to progress.
When the officers arrived,
they were able to locate the suspect.
The suspect was armed with a we.
The two officers opened fire on the suspect.
Suspect was struck several times
and the suspect is now deceased.
We located the victim.
The victim was offered
medical assistance on scene,
was not transported to the
hospital and she is safe.
As with all of our officer invod
shootings, we've asked the GB I
to come out and then conducting
an independent investigation.
We've also asked our Internal
Affairs unit to come out.
Both are on scene right now and
both are collecting evidence,
doing interviews and.
Completing the work that they
have to do on the scene and at
and at our headquarters buildin.
Once that's complete, of course,
as always, that will be presentd
to our District Attorney,
Flynn Brody for review and any
action that he deems appropriat.
I would like to ask our communiy
to hold both the family and the
loved ones of the gentleman that
was killed tonight and our offi.
In their thoughts and prayers,
officers do a hard job.
They did a hard job tonight.
It was a dangerous call to go t.
It was a scary call to go to.
They did their job,
unfortunately did not end
the way the officers,
the family and probably even
the victim would have liked.
It's an unfortunate outcome and again,
we express our condolences to al
those who were affected by this.
That's in effect
all the information that I have right now.
I will be happy to take a couplf
questions, but I'm not sure I'll
have any more details until the
officers have been interviewed and the
investigation proceeds just a le
bit. Do we know the relation
of the victim
in the Susco from what
I understand right now.
And I would like you to take
this as preliminary information.
Very preliminary.
We believe that's boyfriend, girlfriend.
The original two that were in te
argument and the physical altercation,
I don't even think I would
call it a physical altercation.
I believe it was an assault
but they were boyfriend,
girlfriend I believe.
Was there anyone else inside
the home at the time? I
don't know that for sure.
I do know they cleared the
residence and and another anothr
residence in the area just to
make sure everybody was safe
inside and everybody was safe.
I do not believe anybody was
in the house at the time.
Were they both living in the ho,
the victim and suspect?
I do not know the answer to that question.
I do not know. When you say ass,
was there any weapon involved
from the suspect? You know, it's
a little too early to tell that,
but we do know that or we do bee
that the suspect had a weapon on
his person when 911 was called.
And we do see evidence of
that here on the scene. Can
you tell us what kind of firearm
you have? I do not know that. I
believe there's a pistol.
In the dispatch, there was some
conflicting information on that.
So I won't bring up other things that I
heard, but I believe there's a pistol on
the scene when police arrived with the
suspect point his weapon at at officers.
Is that what happened?
We won't know that this
early in the investigation.
We have not interviewed the offs
and we don't at this early junc.
That's something that the GB I l
perform for us and then we'll do
an administrative investigation
later where they will talk to or
internal affairs investigators.
And Chief, they only say domestic violence
is the hardest call that you guys go to.
Is this kind of proof of what yu
don't want to see happen with that? Oh
absolutely we do.
We definitely do not want theseo
end this way and the officers dt
want to see it see it in this w.
Shootings are are hard on offic.
I'm not sure everybody really
understands that but it's it's
it's hard even in defense.
To use fatal force against an individual,
against a human being,
it's very difficult to do that.
Yes, domestics are hard,
but we have a lot of hard dispas
right now and we have a lot of
guns on the street right now.
And I really hope that as
a criminal justice system,
a holistic criminal justice sys,
we are recognizing the dangers f
these weapons in the hands of criminals,
especially those that are engagd
in criminal conduct at the time.
So thank you for the question.
I think I'm going to wrap it up at that.
Thank Y'all for coming out and please let
us know if we can do anything for you.
You know the status of the officer right now,
both officers are good.
Both officers are physically fie
and we've got our peer support
team with them and a chaplain
is also present with them.
Thank you.