CLARKSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana police officer fatally shot a machete-wielding man who charged at him inside a Walmart, authorities say.
The Walmart had closed to customers for the evening Monday night when employees around 11:15 p.m. notified three Clarksville Police Department officers outside the shop that a suspicious man was walking around inside, Indiana State Police said.
The person, later identified as Daniel Francis Scott, 30, of Corydon, Indiana, disregarded requests to go away the shop, state police said. Scott also appeared to have severe lacerations to the side of his neck.
The officers saw Scott walking around contained in the store and he brandished a machete-style knife when approached and charged toward one officer, state police said. That officer fired his department handgun, striking Scott, who was pronounced dead at a hospital.
The Clarksville Police Department requested Indiana State Police investigate the shooting.
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No Walmart employees or Clarksville Law enforcement officials were injured in the course of the incident, state police said.
Investigators imagine the lacerations to Daniel Scott’s neck were likely self-inflicted and that Scott took a razer and the machete from the shop before being asked to go away, state police said.
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