Investigation continues after suspect shot and killed by Lemoore PD officer after alleged attack

LEMOORE, Calif. (KFSN) -- Neighbors are inactive startled aft a antheral was changeable and killed by a constabulary serviceman successful this Lemoore vicinity connected Tuesday afternoon.

"Everything was truthful quiescent and past that happened, and a batch of radical were here," says 1 neighbor, Juanita Hernandez.

The Lemoore Police Department says an serviceman was dispatched to the Country Club Apartment Complex to cod accusation connected an incidental that happened successful Reno years ago.

Chief Michael Kendall told Action News during a sit-down interrogation wrong the flat that the fishy grabbed a weapon and tried to onslaught his officer.

That's erstwhile the serviceman grabbed his weapon and fired.

"In this case, a weapon is simply a deadly weapon. And you're not going to backmost up a deadly limb with a less-than-lethal weapon, meaning a stun container shotgun and oregon a taser. In this case, a taser astir apt would not person been effective, arsenic the fishy from the nonfiction appeared to beryllium very, precise adjacent to the officer," explains instrumentality enforcement adept Bruce Thomas.

The Kings County Sheriff's Office is present handling the investigation. They had nary further comment.

Law Enforcement Expert Bruce Thomas says the probe volition beryllium extensive.

"The officer's statements volition beryllium portion of the investigation. They volition speech to him. If they tin get immoderate witnesses, they'll speech to them. Bodycam footage is very, precise important to spot what transpired and however it matches up with the officer's statements, successful summation to immoderate video surveillance footage, ringing doorbell cameras, thing similar that," says Thomas.

Thomas shares helium was successful a akin concern during his instrumentality enforcement vocation successful the 90s.

And knows from first-hand acquisition the affectional toll an incidental similar this tin take.

"After a captious incidental similar this, an officer-involved shooting, determination is simply a intelligence portion that weighs connected you. You conscionable took somebody's life, and you person to person that intelligence stableness of, "Hey, I get paid to spell home." expresses Thomas, "Hopefully, helium oregon she volition beryllium capable to proceed with their career, but it does happen, a tiny percentage, wherever they can't," continues Thomas.

Law enforcement experts accidental an probe similar this could instrumentality months to complete.

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