ALBION, Mich. — A 42-year-old man is dead after a shooting involving an Albion police officer.
5th District Incident Response Team (IRT) is on scene of an OIS occurring today 6/22 in Albion involving an Albion Police Officer. IRT detectives responded after they were requested to investigate.
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The Albion Department of Public Safety says officers got a call just before 5:30 p.m. Wednesday about a possible mental health emergency.
Family members told officers a relative was having psychological issues, taking psychological medication while drinking and acting irrationally. They claim the man, identified as Jason Dodds, said he was going to kill another relative whom he got into a fight with a few weeks earlier.
Officers tried to find Dodds so they could help him but weren't able to do so right away.
The department says around 6:30 p.m., officers responded to N. Eaton Street where Dodds was trying to break into his relative's home, whom he previously threatened. The relative was able to escape out the back, while the agitated man broke in through the front.
When officers got there and confronted Dodds, they say he turned toward them and started to raise a gun. Officers told him to drop it several times, but say he continued to raise it toward them.
The department says an officer fired at Dodds and hit him. ADPS officers say they started CPR immediately until emergency crews arrived and took the man to the hospital where he later died.
Officers were able to recover Dodd’s gun and turn it over to state police, which ADPS requested to investigate the shooting.
ADPS says the officer is on paid administrative leave, pending MSP's investigation.
