Police shoot dead man in wheelchair who was ‘trying to kill himself’

“Instead, they killed him instead”.

Authorities say a shooting occurred and the man died at the scene.

The man was identified as 28-year-old Jeremy McDole, according to police spokeswoman Sgt.

Mr McDole appears to try and lift himself out of his wheelchair before around six or seven gunshots are fired by police. Andrea Janvier told The News Journal that circumstances of the shooting are under investigation. As many as 24 officers arrived to the scene, asking him to drop his weapon. “They could have knocked him out of his wheelchair”.

McDole’s uncle, Eugene Smith, were among a crowd of about a couple of dozen people who gathered Thursday at the scene of the shooting. That’s what it was.

The Wilmington Police Department could not be reached on Thursday to provide details or comment, but was quoted in the local News Journal newspaper as saying that officers responded to the area after a caller reported that a man in a wheelchair had shot himself. “I don’t care if he was black, white, whatever”, Smith said.

The ethnicity of the officers involved was not immediately released.

Police plan a news conference Thursday afternoon to talk about the shooting.

Wilmington Police said they encountered the man ‘armed with a handgun, ‘ on Wednesday afternoon, in a statement released later.

“They couldn’t [use a Taser on] him?” Officers were responding to a call about a man in a wheelchair who had a possible self-inflicted gunshot wound.

That’s when the man was killed in what the police office said was a ‘departmental shooting, ‘ although it still isn’t exactly clear how.

Such investigations are conducted any time an officer’s use of a firearm results in injury or death, he noted.

According to a city spokeswoman, Police Chief Bobby L Cummings went to the scene and met with neighbors and relatives after the death.