Deputy, dead suspect identified in weekend shooting
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Authorities have released the name of a man fatally shot by a Florida sheriff's deputy last weekend.
Palm Beach County Sheriff's spokeswoman Teri Barbera said Wednesday that 46-year-old Ricky Whidden was shot by Deputy Justin Rigney during Saturday morning's confrontation in Loxahatchee.
Barbera says Whidden had a knife and was threatening to kill himself and his family. She says deputies tried negotiating with him and then knocked him down with a rubber-ball gun. She says that when they approached to arrest him, he jumped up and lunged at them with the knife. Rigney fired, killing him.
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Whidden and Rigney are both white. Rigney has been placed on administrative leave with pay while the shooting is investigated.