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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