Deputies responding to a man who said he’d shot himself ended up shooting and killing the man when he pointed a gun at them, according to the Utah County Sheriff’s Office.
A man called them at 11:17 a.m. to report that he had shot himself in the the leg, police said, and that he was on Wells Canyon Road in the Manning Canyon area of northwest Utah County.
When deputies arrived there, the man pointed a gun at them, police said. Two deputies ordered the man to drop his gun, and when he refused they fired their weapons at him. The deputies administered CPR until paramedics arrived, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police have not released the name or age of the dead man, identifying him only as “an adult man from Salt Lake County.” The Utah County Officer Involved Critical Incident Team is investigating the shooting.
This was the 19th police shooting in Utah this year, according to a database maintained by The Salt Lake Tribune.
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