Memphis shooting: 1 dead, 1 police officer in “critical" condition after library incident | FULL

Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Keli McAlister provided an update after one person was fatally shot and a police officer was critically injured earlier that afternoon, in what the authorities described on social media as a “police-involved shooting” at a library in Memphis, Tenn.

A man had started a confrontation with another person inside the library, and when officers attempted to talk with him, he pulled out a weapon and shot one of them, McAlister said. The other officer drew his weapon, shooting and killing the man.

McAlister did not identify the officers or the man who was killed by name, but said all three were Black men. The officer was taken to a hospital in “extremely critical” condition, according to the police department.

The Memphis Police Department has been under intense scrutiny after the beating that led to the death of Tyre Nichols last month.

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