EVANSVILLE, Ind. WEHT) — Evansville Police have released the name of the person killed in a shooting Sunday night.
The Vanderburgh County Coroner reports Rodriguez Duandre Pam, 33, was identified as the person shot and killed at the scene.
Officers responded to a 911 call from the 1100 block of Cherry Street around 8:15 p.m., where a woman said a man was in her backyard, threatening to shoot her dog.
At one point, she told police the man pointed a gun at her.
Officer Phil Smith of the Evansville Police Department said, “Officers… confronted the armed suspect. The suspect was not compliant to officers’ commands. We have multiple witnesses accounts saying that they heard officers give commands to the suspect that he did not comply to.”
We’ve since learned that two officers fired at the suspect.
An autopsy is scheduled for Monday evening.
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(This story was originally published on November 8, 2020)
