MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Police fatally shot a man in Alabama who they say was armed with a knife and ran away from officers who were attempting to detain him.
The shooting happened Tuesday evening in Mobile after an officer stopped the man’s vehicle on a highway following several traffic violations, Mobile Police Chief Lawrence Battiste said in a news conference.
Battiste said the man pulled over, then got out of the car and fled. The officer caught up to the man and used a stun gun on him, but he got up from the ground and took off once again, the chief said. Battiste said the same scenario happened again when a second officer used a stun gun on the man.
Police said the man had refused to drop the knife before he was shot.
“As a result of that, the officers had to resort to deadly force,” Battiste said.