Michael Lee Ross Jr.

Deadly force

Officers were called at about 5:12 a.m. to a report of a stabbing in the parking lot of a QuikTrip. Police said a man stabbed a woman and then fled to a creek area. Officers administered first aid to the woman, who was killed. Her identity has been withheld by police. The officers found the man, who reportedly still had a knife, in a nearby creek and told him to drop the weapon. Police said the man did not comply and attempted to harm himself with the knife. The officers used multiple bean bag rounds on the man who at one point turned toward the officer while holding the knife, police said. The officers shot and killed him.