Eric John Sopp

Deadly force

Police were called to a domestic disturbance in which an person, who had reportedly been drinking, threatening to assault a family member and himself, left the location in a other. After police conducted a car stop, Eric John Sopp was shot and killed when he announced he was getting out of the car and then began to do so. Sopp was unarmed, and police had been made aware by dispatcher that he was not suspected of being armed.