Story out of Weirton, West Virginia:
A West Virginia police officer was reportedly fired after not shooting an armed man during an incident in May.
Then-Weirton police officer Stephen Mader was involved in a heated exchange with Ronald D. Williams, 23, of Pittsburgh, who then brandished a gun and told Mader to shoot him, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Sunday. Williams was black.
Mader, a former Marine, told the paper he had used training from his time in the military and his situational training in the police academy to assess the situation.
“I told him, ‘Put down the gun,’ and he’s like, ‘Just shoot me.’ And I told him, ‘I’m not going to shoot you brother.’ Then he starts flicking his wrist to get me to react to it. I thought I was going to be able to talk to him and deescalate it. I knew it was a suicide-by-cop situation.”
Out of nowhere, two other Weirton officers arrived at the scene. The paper reported that Williams walked toward them waving his gun and one of them shot Williams in the back of the head, killing him.
Williams’ gun was found to be unloaded. Cont.
Story from - Fox News
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