WESTMINSTER — Officers responded to a house on South Ashburnham Road to serve an arrest warrant on a 22-year-old Westminster resident on Monday at 4:42 p.m., and wound up fatally shooting the man.
Upon arrival, officers made contact with the man inside the home, according to a press release from the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office. During that interaction, the man held a large knife and moved toward the officers, according to the DA’s Office.
Officers discharged their department-issued firearms, striking the individual. Officers immediately rendered medical aid to the injured man.
The man was transported to a local hospital and later transferred to a Worcester-area hospital, where he was pronounced deceased.
No Westminster police officers were injured during this incident.
The officers involved have been placed on administrative leave in accordance with standard protocol pending the outcome of the investigation.
The incident remains under investigation by Massachusetts State Police Detectives assigned to the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office and the Westminster Police Department.
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