UPDATE: Fayetteville police release name of man fatally shot by officers
Fayetteville police named the man shot and killed by police after he allegedly was "advancing on the officers" Friday evening.
Justin Livesay, 40, died on the scene after being shot by multiple officers. Officials said he threatened to harm himself and was armed with two knives.
Police were first called to the 600 block of Hickory View Court in a mobile home park between Bunce and Cliffdale roads at 7:39 p.m. on a report of an armed suicidal person, a news release said. The five officers on scene — one of whom Assistant Police Chief Kimberle Braden said was a sergeant — found Livesay behind one of the mobile homes. According to the release, the officers tried to convince him to drop the knives, but their attempts were unsuccessful and stun guns were deployed.
"Once tasers were deployed, the subject fought through the effects of the taser, getting back to his feet and advancing on the officers, at which time shots were fired by multiple officers on scene," Braden said at a Friday night news conference held near the scene and shared on the department's Facebook page.
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This is the second fatal shooting by Fayetteville police officers this year. In July, Jada Johnson, 22, who family says was in the throes of a mental health crisis, was shot and killed by Officer Zacharius Borom.
The State Bureau of Investigation will conduct the probe into the shooting, Braden said.
According to archived police dispatch audio of the first callout, officers were sent on a report of a "psych subject." Subsequent dispatches informed officers that the daughter of a woman who lived at home called 911 to report she was texting with her mother and her mother's roommate was "having a mental health crisis; threatening suicide. The subject is armed with a large knife."
Public safety reporter Lexi Solomon can be reached at ABSolomon@gannett.com.
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