#ICYMI The story of today' shooting involving a #policeofficer at the Denton #Federal building #downtown #Evansville https://t.co/YsOosWboaL pic.twitter.com/QlFVMaksMg
— Paola Marizán (@pmarizan) August 29, 2017
UPDATE- 3:30pm CDT
Police say 55-year-old Ricky Ard had been escorted from the building on Monday and then returned a day later with a baseball bat.
Evansville Police Sgt. Jason Cullum says Ard swung the bat at the front doors of the building, breaking glass and injuring a federal officer inside.
A short time later, an Evansville police officer arrived and tried to stop the man with a taser, but Cullum said it was “ineffective” and both officers fired their guns at the bat-wielding suspect.
Ard died on the concrete plaza in front of the federal building.
Sgt. Cullum said the man posed an immediate threat.
Ard was black and the officers are white, but Cullum said race was not an issue. The Evansville Police Department will be the lead agency in investigating the officer-involved shooting.
UPDATE- 1:15pm CDT
The suspect's body has been removed from the scene now in front of the Winfield K. Denton Federal Building. Martin Luther King Blvd. has been re-opened to traffic.
The name of the suspect who was shot and killed by police has not been released, nor have the names of the Evansville Police Department officer and the federal court security officer who were involved in the shooting this morning.
Earlier: A baseball bat-wielding suspect was shot and killed by officers in front of the federal building in downtown Evansville Tuesday morning.
The incident happened about 11:30 CDT. An Evansville Police Department spokesman says the suspect, whose name has not yet been released, broke glass in the doors at the building with the bat.
When confronted by a federal court security officer and and an Evansville Police Department officer, he threatened the officers with the bat. He was shot several times and was dead when emergency personnel arrived.
This is a developing story. John Gibson and Paola Marizan are at the scene. We will update this story as soon as more details are available.
