CAIRO- The State Attorney General’s Office is investigating the shooting death of a man by a state trooper as the man pointed what appeared to be a black handgun at the officer during an incident at the Whip-O-Will Campground on Route 31 in the Town of Cairo.
State Police responded to the campground minutes before 8:30 p.m. on Monday, September 14 for a report of an assault involving two men.
Officers located the victim, who had sustained a head injury.
As they approached a camper where the other man was located, he came out while holding the weapon in his right hand. He pointed it at a trooper and continued to walk toward him and that’s when the trooper shot him with his duty weapon.
The victim was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS personnel.
The identities of the parties involved are being withheld pending notification of relatives.
In addition to the attorney general’s investigation, the incident is under investigtion by the State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation at Catskill.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the State Police at 845-344-5300.
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