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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowMuncie police officers fatally shot a man who pointed a BB gun resembling a handgun at them, Indiana State Police said.
The confrontation happened about 2 a.m. Sunday after the officers responded to a call to check on a possibly suicidal man on the city’s south side, state police said. The man identified as 30-year-old Taylor Christian Warner was found sitting inside a car and got out holding what appeared to be a handgun that he pointed at an officer.
Police said officers fired at Warner after he didn’t follow commands to drop the gun. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
State police investigators determined Warner had been holding a BB gun that did not have any orange pieces on it or any other indicators that it was not a real firearm, said Sgt. John Bowling, a state police spokesman.
Investigators will review body camera video from the officers involve and complete a report on the shooting for review by the Delaware County Prosecutor’s Office, he said.
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