Overview
- Officers were flagged down just after 6 p.m. Friday at the Express Market on West Northpark Boulevard during a reported robbery in progress.
- Investigators say the suspect had pointed a loaded revolver at a clerk’s head and fired as the clerk tried to disarm him, narrowly missing the employee.
- The clerk wrested away the revolver, and the suspect went to his vehicle, retrieved a loaded rifle, and began returning toward the store entrance.
- Police encountered the man in the parking lot; when he aimed the rifle at officers, they opened fire and he was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
- Police reported no injuries to the clerk or officers, the suspect’s identity has not been released, and security footage described by authorities shows him raising the rifle.