EVANSVILLE — The Evansville Police Department released bodycam footage Monday afternoon from an incident Saturday evening, Nov. 22, where police shot and killed a man at a home on East Louisiana Street.
Everett Nunn, 58, was killed by police after they responded to the home where a woman reportedly called 911 and said her son and husband “were about to fight.”
Police said in an initial news release Saturday night that as the officer entered the home, a woman said there was a gun in the house.
“The officer then confronted a male subject who had what appeared to be a gun pointed in their direction,” the release stated. “The officer gave commands to put the gun down before discharging his service weapon at the male subject.”
Police held a news conference Monday afternoon where they played the bodycam footage showing Nunn did not have a gun − instead, Nunn was reportedly holding a device used to smoke marijuana that was made to look like a firearm.
The officer who shot Nunn is on administrative leave pending an investigation.
This article originally appeared on Evansville Courier & Press: EPD releases bodycam footage from Saturday’s fatal shooting
Reporting by Sarah Loesch and Houston Harwood, Evansville Courier & Press / Evansville Courier & Press
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