New Details in Officer Shooting in Arpin
Friday, June 14th, 2019 -- 1:38 PM
(Wausau Daily Herald) -A Wood County sheriff's deputy who was shot by another deputy while at the scene of a suicidal man Tuesday night has been released from a hospital.The deputy is expected to make a full recovery, Wood County Sheriff Shawn Becker said in an email Thursday to USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin. Deputies responded to a report of a 32-year-old suicidal man Tuesday night at a home in the village of Arpin. After about 20 minutes, while deputies were talking with an interventionist from Wood County Crisis Intervention, the man went inside the home and armed himself with a knife, Becker said.
There was a struggle and one of the deputies fired his gun, Becker said. Bullets hit the 32-year-old man, another civilian and the other deputy. Deputies attempted life-saving measures until emergency medical services arrived, but the 32-year-old man died from his injuries.
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