DEXTER, Ky. (AP) - Police in Kentucky have identified an officer who fatally shot a man during an altercation.
Kentucky State Police Trooper Adam Jones said in a news release Thursday that Murray Police Department officer Justin Swope shot 42-year-old John D. Hale on Saturday in the Calloway County community of Dexter.
Jones had said in a previous statement that the shooting occurred following an altercation with police, but he didn’t provide details. It said a Calloway County sheriff’s deputy and a Murray police officer had responded to a report of a suspicious person.
An autopsy shows Hale died from gunshot wounds.
Dexter is in southwestern Kentucky, about 114 miles (183 kilometers) northwest of Nashville, Tennessee.
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