WIS News 10 - Columbia, South Carolina | New Orleans police shoot, kill knife-wielding man
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(New Orleans, Louisiana-AP) Dec. 26, 2005 - New Orleans police have shot and killed a man who they say threatened an officer with a knife.
Police say they were called by a businessman who'd had a confrontation with the man.
Police spokesman David Adams says officers repeatedly asked the man to drop the knife, which had a three-inch blade. They then used pepper spray on him. Adams says, "Evidently the pepper spray had no effect."
He says the man then walked toward an officer, who backed out of the way to avoid being stabbed in the chest.
Adams says he doesn't know how many officers fired or how many shots were fired. That's under investigation.
The shooting is the first involving on-duty New Orleans police since Hurricane Katrina.
Posted 10:40pm by Chantelle Janelle
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