Sheriff: Deputy shoots gun-wielding man in western Wisconsin

A person allegedly armed with a gun was airlifted to a hospital after being shot by a western Wisconsin sheriff’s deputy. 

The capturing occurred after Burnett County Dispatch was alerted at 1 p.m. a few man threatening to make use of a gun at FishBowl Bar in rural Danbury, which is situated simply east of the St. Croix River and the Minnesota-Wisconsin border. 

Based on the sheriff’s report, the person was noticed by deputies strolling away from the bar, and “brandishing a handgun as deputies had been making an attempt to talk to him.”

The person continued down seventh Place Street, strolling towards his residence after which went right into a wooded space, at then at one level allegedly “swung the handgun pointing it at” two deputies and a tribal officer. 

One deputy fired on the person, hanging him in an unknown space of his physique. 

The person’s id has not been launched, nor have the officers concerned within the encounter. The deputy who shot the person has been positioned on commonplace administrative go away whereas the sheriff’s workplace investigates. 

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