HANOVER, Ind. (AP) _ A southeastern Indiana sheriff says a man who was shot dead after charging at deputies was not armed.
Jefferson County Sheriff John Wallace said in an email Monday that 43-year-old John Unsworth of Hanover was unarmed when he was fatally shot early Saturday.
Wallace says “there were a number of significant factors that led the deputy to use lethal force.'' He did not immediately return a telephone message Monday asking him to elaborate on that statement.
Indiana State Police are investigating the shooting in which they say Unsworth was charging deputies in a “highly agitated manner'' after being struck with several charges from a stun gun and ignoring verbal commands.
Deputies were responded to a disturbance at a house in Hanover, about 40 miles northeast of Louisville, Kentucky.
