South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) agents are investigating after an Aiken County police officer, who allegedly accused the police with a knife, was killed by a deputy.
According to a press release from the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office, police were called to Joes Park Road in Warrenville, South Carolina at about 1 am Monday, when a man was reportedly trying to attack park residents. of trailers.
The man accused deputies and was holding a knife when he was shot, according to the note.
According to SLED, no further injuries were reported in the incident.
WRDW reported that the man was identified as Daryl Dye, 45, of Warrenville, South Carolina.
This incident was one of two shootings involving police in the past 24 hours in South Carolina. In Marion County, a man was shot on Sunday by an assistant in the Marion County sheriff’s office who was answering a domestic call, according to with SLED.
South Carolina saw a record 49 shootings involving police in 2020, according to a press release from the State Law Enforcement Division (SLED). This corresponds to the brand defined in 2017 – and continues a worrying escalation of this metric.
SLED investigates police shootings as a matter of protocol in the vast majority of local law enforcement jurisdictions in the state of Palmetto – presenting independent investigative reports to the attorney with jurisdiction over the county or county where the shooting occurred.
Last year, the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office reported two shootings involving police officers.
Warrenville, South Carolina, is a small town with a population of about 1,000.
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