Police: Armed man shot twice by Las Vegas officer
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A man who was shot at least twice by a Las Vegas police officer responding to a call about an armed man at a business was in surgery at a hospital, a police official said Friday.
The officer was in the parking lot nearby, and was directed by someone from the business to find the man on the ground behind a strip mall, Capt. Kelly McMahill said.
The officer shot the man when he sat up with the gun and wouldn't put it down, McMahill said.
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Neither the injured man nor the officer was immediately identified. No other injuries were reported.
The shooting, which happened about 12:45 p.m. a few miles west of downtown, was the fourth shooting involving a Las Vegas police officer in 2017 and the second this week.
Early Thursday, an officer fired once but missed an armed burglary suspect jumping a wall in a residential backyard. That man was subdued by a neighbor wielding a baseball bat.