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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 26 sepTember 2017

Police kill man in Vegas hospital who grabbed stun gun

By KEN RITTER (4 kilometers) from the Las
Associated Press Vegas Strip. He was taken
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police to the hospital after jailers
said Monday that a sus- determined he was too
pect in custody in a Las incoherent to be admit-
Vegas hospital emergency ted at the Clark County
room was fatally shot by an Detention Center.The stun
officer after the man was gun was inside an equip-
left alone and lifted a stun ment bag also containing
gun out of a jail guard’s shackles and paperwork
bag that had been left that the corrections officer
near the suspect. brought with him to the
The unidentified man had hospital for his assignment
been arrested on a felony monitoring the suspect.
arrest warrant and was McMahill said police of-
taken to University Medical ficers knew the suspect’s
Center because he was background because they
incoherent after his arrest “have dealt with him on
and could not be kept in other suicide-type events,
jail, Las Vegas police Capt. crisis intervention.”The of-
Kelly McMahill said. ficer who fired the shot
The 4:15 a.m. shooting was placed on paid leave
happened when a hos- pending reviews of the
pital security officer and shooting by the police de-
a nurse entered the small Police Capt. Kelly McMahill briefs the media on an officer-involved shooting at University partment and the district
room where the suspect Medical Center on Monday, Sept. 25, 2017, in Las Vegas. Authorities said a man in po- attorney’s office.Investiga-
was and the suspect point- lice custody inside the hospital was fatally shot by an officer while the man was pointing tors will probe whether the
ed the stun gun at him, a stun gun. jail guard violated policies
McMahill said. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP) and procedures by leav-
The security officer left ed shortly before 11 p.m. ened suicide, said he had Police officers found him ing the suspect alone and
the room to get help and Sunday on the warrant a gun and was “going to unconscious near a bus the bag with the stun gun
found a police officer who on an unspecified charge blast it out with cops,” Mc- stop in a business neigh- in the room, Officer Larry
went into the room and after he allegedly threat- Mahill said. borhood about 2.5 miles Hadfield said.q
saw the man pointing the
stun gun at the nurse. The Oklahoma:
officer fired once as the
suspect was turning to- Baby left on side of freeway in car seat with cash
ward him, McMahill said.
McMahill did not say By J. JUOZAPAVICIUS from the shoulder of Inter- just left on the shoulder of “I feel like God used our
whether the security officer Associated Press state 40. Sgt. Gary Knight a highway. This could have youth group to save some-
was armed when entered A 1-month-old baby found said Monday that officers had a very tragic ending.” one’s life Saturday because
the room. Security video on the side of an Oklaho- also found a Social Security Emergency workers esti- we’re here on Earth to fulfill
reviewed by investigators ma interstate in a car seat card with the baby. mated the child had been a redemptive purpose,”
showed the suspect tak- stuffed with $5,500 in cash Police said they located left in the 91-degree heat Angel said. “God stepped
ing the stun gun from the and a birth certificate was the child’s mother through about 30 minutes, but said in.”He said about 15 mem-
guard’s bag, McMahill in state custody Monday as family members and that he appeared to be well bers of the 120-congregant
said. authorities continued to in- she’s been taken to a hos- cared for before being left church were traveling back
The man was declared vestigate why the boy was pital to be evaluated. on the interstate. to Ada, about 84 miles (135
dead shortly after the abandoned. “We don’t know why she Ken Angel, pastor of Ab- kilometers) southeast of
shooting. Police did not Oklahoma City police said did what she did ... but peo- ba’s House of Worship Oklahoma City, when the
identify him, the officer, the a church group returning ple do the strangest things Center in Ada, Oklahoma, youth leader saw the car
jail guard, the security offi- from an amusement park sometimes,” Knight said. “I whose group spotted the seat. The group had been
cer or the nurse. spotted the child Saturday don’t recall seeing a case child, credited divine inter- at an amusement park in
The man had been arrest- about 10 feet (3 meters) like this where a baby was vention in finding the child. Oklahoma City.q