Face mask row ends in fatal police shooting
A police officer in america state of Michigan has shot dead a man suspected of stabbing a person in a shop, within an altercation over face masks.
Police say the incident started out in a convenience store near Lansing, where in fact the suspect - named as Sean Ruis - attacked a 77-year-old man who had challenged him for not wearing a mask.
They state Ruis fled the scene in an automobile.
He was later stopped by a female deputy sheriff, who opened fire when Ruis lunged towards her.
Michigan State Police released footage of the confrontation in a residential area in the Lansing suburb of Delta in early stages Tuesday.
It shows the authorities car stopping a vehicle and the driver, discovered as Ruis, advancing on the deputy who shoots him after a brief tussle.
Police say Ruis, 43, was carrying a weapon. He was taken to hospital, where he was declared dead.
The incident happened thirty minutes after Ruis allegedly stabbed a person at the Quality Dairy store in Dimondale, about six miles (10km) south.
The row is said to have begun when the 77-year-old - who was wearing a face mask - chided Ruis for not doing so. Older people man is in hospital and said to be in a stable condition.
It isn't the first dispute over face masks to get rid of in tragedy in america.
The other day a security guard in Gardena, south of LA, was charged with murder over the shooting of a person who had entered a shop without a face mask.
