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CHARLESTON â Charleston police shot a man wielding a knife Friday afternoon on the West Side after he made a âlunging movementâ toward them, police Chief Tyke Hunt said.
Denaul Dickerson, 33, who is Black, was in stable condition in the hospital at 6 p.m. Friday after the 12:45 p.m. shooting near Washington Street West and Greendale Drive, the chief said.
Police were initially dispatched after receiving a call about a man threatening to stab another person, Hunt said. Itâs unclear whether Dickerson was this man.
At a news briefing Friday, Charleston police shared two body camera videos from the incident. The release of the video footage was an attempt by the department to be âas transparent as possible,â Hunt said.
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West Virginia police officer dies 2 days after being shot
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) A West Virginia police officer has died two days after being shot by a suspect while responding to a parking complaint.
The city of Charleston announced officer Cassie Johnson s death in a news release Thursday. Johnson, 28, joined the city as a humane officer in October 2017 and was sworn in as a patrol officer in January 2019. Cassie was an exemplary police officer. She embodied everything that the Charleston Police Department is and strives to be courageous, compassionate and selfless for the citizens of the city that she loved, Police Chief Tyke Hunt said in the statement. Her legacy will live on in the officers and the citizens that she touched and inspired everyday.