Overview

• The shooting occurred around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday outside a Staples store at West 117th Street and Berea Road in Cleveland.
• The suspect, who approached law enforcement officers with a knife, was pronounced dead at the scene.
• Two officers from the Medina County Sheriff’s Office, part of a multi-agency task force, fired at the suspect.
• The task force was conducting a coordinated narcotics investigation involving federal, state, and local agencies.
• Cleveland police have launched an investigation into the shooting and have not released further details.