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23-year-old who died after being shot by a Pima County deputy identified

February 25th 2024

TUCSON, Ariz. — A man approached authorities with a sword late Saturday evening and was shot. The man later died, authorities said. Pima County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a hotel near Palo Verde Road for a report of a suspicious person at around 10 p.m. Feb. 24. The 911 caller reported that a man was yelling outside a hotel room and waving a sword. When deputies got to the scene, they found the subject holding a sword. Deputies tried to talk with the man, who was identified as 23-year-old Devon Lewis, but he removed the sword from its sheath and approached the deputies. One deputy shot his handgun and hit the man. The man died at the scene, police said. No deputies or other community members were injured in the incident. The Tucson Police Department is the lead investigating agency for the shooting and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department will be conducting a separate investigation to determine if there were any policy violations. 

SOURCE = 12 News (MSNBC)

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Man wielding sword shot, killed by Pima County deputy at Tucson hotel

February 25th 2024

Pima County Sheriff’s deputies fatally shot a man accused of wielding a sword at a Tucson hotel on Saturday night. The deputies responded to a report of a suspicious person at about 10 p.m. Saturday at a Days Inn hotel near the Tucson International Airport. The Sheriff’s Department described a man yelling outside of a hotel room and waving a sword in a statement issued Sunday morning. Deputies tried to talk to the man upon arriving, according to the statement, at which point he removed the sword from its sheath and moved toward the officials. A deputy shot the man and then applied first aid until Rural Metro Fire Department personnel responded to the location of the incident. The man, identified later as 23-year-old Devon Lewis, was pronounced dead at the scene and no one else was injured.

SOURCE = AZ Central

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AG releases body camera footage of officer-involved fatal shooting in Rockland County

March 26th 2024

The state attorney general has released body camera video from the investigation into a deadly officer-involved shooting in Rockland County. The videos show the vantage points from both state troopers involved in the shooting of Rakim Tillery on Jan. 3 on the Thruway. Police say Tillery was being chased by officers after an incident in Albany. When they stopped him, state police say he opened fire at the troopers, and they returned fire.

Mr. Tillery was declared dead at the scene. A gun was recovered at the scene. AG Letitia James’s office says they released the footage to the public to increase transparency and strengthen public trust in these matters. It added that the release is “not an expression of any opinion as to the guilt or innocence of any party in a criminal matter or any opinion as to how or whether any individual may be charged with a crime.”

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