By Lou Grieco
Dayton Daily News
DAYTON, Ohio — An FBI agent assisting in a search warrant shot a Dayton man to death Thursday after the man lunged at him with a knife, Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl said.
Biehl said that the agent fired three shots, and that investigators believe all three hit Fallacy Myers.
Myers, 43, lived at 105 Samuel St. FBI agents arrived there Thursday morning to execute the search warrant, Biehl said.
The investigation dealt with child exploitation and money laundering, Biehl said. No Dayton officers were inside the house at the time of the shooting, he said.
Fred Alverson, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio, said that when agents arrived, Myers indicated that he wanted to cooperate with the investigation.
The agents had been there several hours when Myers grabbed a knife and started stabbing himself, Alverson said.
When the agents tried to use a Taser on Myers, he lunged at one of the agents and was shot, Alverson said.
FBI spokesman Todd Lindgren said that Myers grabbed the knife after agents told him he would be booked into the county jail.
FBI agents from Washington are on their way and will take over the investigation, Lindgren said.
A search of court records Thursday afternoon did not show any criminal convictions for Myers. He and his wife, Bonnie, did file a personal injury lawsuit Nov. 29 against a Michigan insurance company.
Myers had been injured Dec. 17, 2009, in a traffic accident involving an underinsured motorist in Harrison Twp., according to the complaint.
That case was to go to trial Aug. 13.
“He was a nice, likeable guy,” said Myers’ attorney Kenneth Ignozzi when he learned of Myers’ death.
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