WASHINGTON COUNTY, Mo. — A man was shot and killed by a deputy in Washington County, Missouri, Friday night.
Washington County Sheriff Zach Jacobson said his department was called at around 8:20 to a home on the 15000 block of Highway 21 in Old Mines after a report of a suicide at a home.
Deputies knocked on the door and a woman in the home let them in. Jacobson said the deputies saw blood in a sink and bathtub, so they asked the woman if the man in the house was OK. She said he was OK and sleeping in the other room.
Deputies said when they walked into the room where he was supposed to be sleeping, the man was awake on the bed. Deputies tried to talk to him, but he pulled out a pistol and a shotgun and threatened the deputies.
The deputies tried to calm him down, but he pointed one of the guns at a deputy. Jacobson said one of the deputies then shot and killed the man.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol was called in to investigate.
The identities of the man and the deputies will be released when the investigation is finished.