LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- One person died after being shot Saturday by an Elizabethtown Police officer.
Chris Denham with the Elizabethtown Police Department said an officer was investigating a suspicious person on Wingfield Court, near the intersection of Nightingale Drive and Ring Road, around 9 a.m.
Police said the suspect became violent toward the officer in the parking lot, resulting in a fight. Elizabethtown Police Chief Jeremy Thompson said the suspect was armed.
The officer then shot the suspect. The suspect, who has since been identified by Kentucky State Police as a male, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The officer was taken to Baptist Health Hardin with injuries. His or her condition is not clear.
Neither the officer nor the deceased individual have been identified yet.
The suspect had a protection order for domestic and interpersonal violence with a caution indicator for a weapon that had not been served yet, according to Thompson. The male also had a warrant out for stalking, harassment with physical contact and criminal mischief in a separate incident.
An autopsy was scheduled to take place in Louisville.
The shooting marks the second time this week that a person has been shot and killed by an Elizabethtown police officer. On Tuesday, a man was shot and killed by an officer during a domestic violence call.
"This is still an active investigation, but at this point, it is not believed that these two officer-involved shootings are connected," Denham said.
Elizabethtown Police said body camera footage of the shooting has been turned over to Kentucky State Critical Incident Response Team.
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