Gary officer shoots man armed with knife, police say

Gary officer shoots man armed with knife, police say

A Gary Police Department officer shot a man armed with a knife near East 22nd Avenue and Ohio Street on Sunday, police said.

Person armed with knife shot by police officer in northwest Indiana

A man armed with a knife was shot by a police officer on Sunday in Gary, Indiana, authorities said. Gary police said officers were called to a residence in the 2100 block of Tennessee Street to assist an agency with a suicidal person who had stabbed himself. Police responded to the area and encountered the individual in an alley near East 22nd Avenue and Ohio Street. According to authorities, the man refused an officer’s order to drop the knife …