FOUNTAIN INN, S.C. (AP) - Authorities say the death of man shot and killed by Greenville County deputies has been ruled a suicide by provocation.
Deputy Coroner Jeff Fowler said Sunday that the 50-year-old Joseph Scott Inabinet didn’t shoot himself, but that his death was ruled a suicide because he provoked others into killing him. He died of multiple gunshot wounds.
Sheriff Will Lewis told the Greenville News that deputies responded early Saturday to a 911 call from a woman who said her estranged husband was on the porch with a shotgun.
Lewis says that when deputies arrived at the home near Fountain Inn, the man pointed a gun at them and asked “do you not see my gun?” He says deputies had no choice other than to shoot the man.
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