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Texas man shot after 2 officers stabbed

Kilgore police officers responded to a reported kidnapping

Corpus Christi Caller-Times

KILGORE, Texas — A man is dead, shot by police who said he stabbed them during a scuffle at a house in an East Texas neighborhood.

The family of the slain man said he had a history of mental disability.

Kilgore police Capt. Roman Roberson says Officer DeeAnn Brown and Sgt. David Tucker went to the house just before 8 a.m. Monday in response to a reported kidnapping. They were met by a man they described as mentally unstable who pulled a knife on the officers.

Roberson says the man stabbed the officers. One then shot the man dead.

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