LAS VEGAS (AP) - Las Vegas police say the wife of a gun-wielding man who was shot and killed by officers said he experienced a “mental episode” and fired three shots inside their home before she called police.
Police Capt. Yasenia Yatomi told reporters the man’s wife also said he made “politically motivated statements” about 4 p.m. Sunday at their home in a neighborhood west of the Las Vegas Strip.
Officers tried to talk with the man before he came out of the house with a gun, Yatomi said. Two officers fired several shots and Yatomi said a police K-9 dog was deployed before officers began providing medical aid.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene. His name was not immediately made public by police or the Clark County coroner.
Yatomi did not describe the statements the man made before officers arrived, and did not say if he said anything when he emerged from the house.
The officers involved in the shooting were not immediately identified. Yatomi said they were placed on paid leave pending departmental and district attorney reviews of the shooting.
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