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UPDATE: Police release graphic video of shooting of man involved in mask stabbing

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UPDATE: Police release graphic video of shooting of man involved in mask stabbing
UPDATE: Police release graphic video of shooting of man involved in mask stabbing

One man has died following an incident that began at a Quality Dairy located at 7120 Lansing Road in Dimondale around 6:45 a.m.

Tuesday.

POINT-BLANK RANGE.TONIGHT... EATON COUNTY SHERIFFTOM REICH SAYS... THAT DEPUTYSAVED HEROWN LIFE.ACCORDING TO SHERIFF REICH...THE OFFICER SHOT AND KILLED SEANRUIS... SHORTLY AFTERHE ALLEGEDLY STABBED A MAN IN ANARGUMENT OVER A FACEMASK.WE'RE ABOUT TO SHOW YOUSURVEILLANCE VIDEO OF THESHOOTING.

WE DO WANT TO WARNYOU... IT IS EXTREMELYGRAPHIC... BUT IT'S IMPORTANTFORVIEWERS TO SEE HOW IT ALL WENTDOWN."YOUR HANDS.""WHAT?""GET RID OF IT.

DROP IT.""DROP IT?""DROP IT.""DROP IT.

DROP THE WEAPON.

DROPIT!""DROP THE WEAPON?""YES.

DROP IT!""DROP IT?

DROP IT?""DROP IT!

DROP THE WEAPON!

DROPTHE WEAPON!""UHHH.DOWN.""GET ON THE GROUND!

GET ON YOURSTOMACH, NOW!

GET ON YOURSTOMACH!"WHILE THE SHERIFF SAYS THEDEPUTY WAS DEFENDING HERSELF...HE STILL PLACED HERON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE.THAT'S STANDARD PROCEDURE FORANY OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING.THE SHERIFF SAID THE INCIDENTSTARTED THIS MORNING..

WHEN RUISWAS REFUSED SERVICEAT THIS QUALITY DAIRY BECAUSE HEWASN'T WEARING A FACE MASK.

HETHEN GOT INTO AN ARGUMENT WITH A77- YEAR-OLD MAN..

WHO WASWEARING A MASK.POLICE SAY..

RUIS STABBED THEMAN -- THEN TOOK OFF.A DEPUTY CAUGHT UP TO HIM AT HISHOME.FOX 47'S KYLIE KHAN HAS THESTORY.HIS VEHICLE DESCRIPTION ANDPLATE WERE PUT OUT.

ON THIS ROADEATON COUNTY DEPUTY LOCATED HISVEHICLE, ATTEMPTED TO MAKE ATRAFFIC STOP ON THAT SUSPECT.THAT'S WHEN RUIS GOT OUT OF HISCAR AND STARTED WALKING TOWARDSTHE DEPUTY WITH TWO KNIVESAND A SCREWDRIVER.SHE STARTED BACKING UP AND THENSHOT HIM.RUIS LATER DIED AT A HOSPITALDURING SURGERY.RYAN BIRCHFIELD WHO LIVES ACROSSTHE STREET SAW IT HAPPEN.AS SOON AS HE COME AROUND THATCORNER THERE, HE PUT IT RIGHT TOTHE FLOOR AND DROVEDOWN THE ROAD HERE AND NEXTTHING I KNOW, SHE PURSUED AFTERHIM.

SHE HAD YELLED TO PUT AWEAPON DOWN OR SOMETHING OF THATNATURE AND THEN I HEARD WHATSOUNDED LIKE GUN SHOTS.AN UNFAMILIAR SOUND IN THISQUIET SUBURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD.IT'S QUITE A SHOCK ESPECIALLY INTHIS NEIGHBORHOOD.

GROWING UPHERE FOR 20-SOMETHINGYEARS AND THE CRAZIEST THINGTHAT HAS HAPPENED IS MAYBE ASPEEDER ONCE IN A WHILE AND THENYOUWAKE UP IN THE MORNING AND YOUSEE ALL THIS.BIRCHFIELD SAYS RUIS TYPICALLYKEPT TO HIMSELF.

THE MICHIGANDEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONCONFIRMS RUIS WAS ATRANSPORTATION TECHNICIAN WHO'DWORKED FOR MDOT SINCE 2008...ANDWAS SUPPOSED TO WORK TODAY.QUALITY DAIRY TELLS US..

ITWILL CONTINUE TO ENFORCE THEMASK MANDATE.STATE POLICE ARE IN CHARGE OFTHE INVESTIGATION.THE DEPUTY INVOLVED IS A22-YEAR-VETERAN OF THE SHERIFF'SOFFICE

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