SUGARCREEK (Tusco TV) - The village’s chief of police is releasing few details about an officer-involved shooting Thursday morning near a downtown business.

Kevin Kaser said the incident occurred around 10 am when an officer was injured by a suspect while responding to traffic-related situation behind the TMK Farm Supply store on Second Street NW. He says the suspect was shot and killed during the altercation, and the injured officer was life-flighted to an area hospital.

Kaser says they’ve called in BCI to launch an independent investigation.  

“They’re going to be our forensics on it. What they do is they come out as an outside entity and being state-controlled they will reconstruct the scene for us and they will end up doing the investigation for us,” he says.

Kaser said the city’s safety committee will also be conducting an internal review into the matter. 

“There will be a review after the investigation or during that investigation. That’s where our safety committee becomes involved with the village and then everything else gets reviewed as well as far as protocols go.

Kaser said they’re not releasing the name of the suspect or the officer involved until both families have been notified.

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