Per Sheriff's stmt, Mon. night ~8:00pm, deputies responded to a 911 call from woman reporting her 23 y/o son was out of control, suicidal & trying to strike her. In talking w man & family, they determined he was suicidal & homicidal, but he surrendered a knife to them. When they tried to take him into custody to transport for a mental health eval at hosp, there was a physical struggle.
"The man got partial control of a deputy's gun, and it went off. Another deputy fired at the man, striking him."
The man was airlifted to a hospital and was reported to be in critical condition.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_ccdcb0fa-f80a-5f1d-8f61-c9c0039d2b49.html Nov 9 2015
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"The man got partial control of a deputy's gun, and it went off. Another deputy fired at the man, striking him."
The man was airlifted to a hospital and was reported to be in critical condition.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_ccdcb0fa-f80a-5f1d-8f61-c9c0039d2b49.html Nov 9 2015
(To access story in St Louis Post-Dispatch ^website, you may be required to answer a couple survey Q's)