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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowEvansville police officers fatally shot an armed man Sunday night in the southwestern Indiana city after police said the man failed to comply with officers’ orders.
Officers were called to a residential backyard around 8:30 p.m. after a woman called 911 and told dispatchers that an armed man was in her yard, had threatened to shoot her dog and had pointed a firearm at her, the Evansville Courier & Press reported.
When officers arrived at the scene, they confronted the man, who was shot multiple times by two Evansville Police Department officers after he failed to comply with their commands, said Philip Smith, the police department’s special projects coordinator.
The man died at the shooting scene, he said.
“They gave verbal commands to the suspect. The suspect did not comply,” Smith said.
He said officers do not believe that the woman who called 911 knew the man, whose name was not immediately released by authorities.
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