Deputy switches from gun to Taser to drop knife-wielding man

 

December 14, 2017



TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma sheriff's deputy who was facing a knife-wielding man said she holstered her gun and instead subdued him with a Taser when she realized he was trying to get her to kill him.

Tulsa County Sheriff's Deputy Catherine Curtin was flagged down Monday at an apartment building by someone saying a man with two large knives was threatening people.

Curtin told KJRH-TV that she had the man at gunpoint but switched to the Taser when she saw him showing "classic suicide-by-cop" behavior.

"At this point, I had him at gunpoint," Curtin told the station. "He turned toward me...



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