HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A man died Sunday after being shot by an officer who had ordered him to drop his rifle and handgun in a Hartford parking lot Saturday night, police said.
Officers received a 911 call about a man with a gun shortly before 9 p.m. Saturday, Hartford Police Chief Jason Thody said. They found a man armed with a rifle and a handgun. Thody said the man acted erratically.
“Officers spent the next several minutes trying to get the individual to put the guns down,” Thody said. “At that point the individual was kind of walking around in the street and through the neighborhoods and in the backyards.”
The man was retreating behind a trash bin in a parking lot when he started pointing a rifle at the officers “and at that point one shot was discharged,” Thody said. The wounded man was taken to Hartford Hospital, where he died Sunday morning.
Body camera footage from several officers will be handed over to the state’s attorney’s office, which is investigating, Thody said.
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