Lansing police shot and killed an individual Thursday evening on the city’s south side, officials said.
Lansing Police Chief Ellery Sosebee said at a press briefing that Lansing officers responded to a complaint of shots fired about 5 p.m.
Officers at the scene called for backup, and Michigan State Police officers in the area also responded, Sosebee said.
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Officers found a suspect with a gun and shot that person, who was pronounced dead at the scene, Sosebee said.
A handgun was recovered at the scene, the Lansing State Journal reported.
Sosebee did not release a gender, age, or hometown for the person who was killed. He also did not say how many Lansing police officers fired their weapons or whether any state police troopers discharged their firearms.
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Michigan State Police are investigating the shooting.
The incident is the second shooting involving a police officer in the Lansing area this year. On Tuesday, a Bath Township sergeant fatally shot a man in a mobile home park.
