Authorities: Deputies shoot Tennessee man who had knife
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Authorities say sheriff's deputies in Tennessee have fatally shot a man after he threatened them with a knife.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation tells media outlets that Shelby County Sheriff's deputies responded to a domestic call at a home in Arlington on Saturday night. The bureau says 48-year-old Jimmy Lee Lawson confronted two deputies with a knife in his driveway. The deputies then shot him.
Bureau spokeswoman Susan Niland says a woman and two other people were inside the home at the time.
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Sheriff's spokesman Earle Farrell says both deputies were placed on administrative leave pending the results of the bureau's investigation.
The deputies' names and races weren't immediately released. Lawson was white.