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lawhawk10/09/2014 9:31:52 am PDT

While the shooting in St. Louis of a black man by an off duty cop raises many questions, across the state in Kansas City, police are dealing with yet another officer-involved shooting.

Kansas City police say a man is dead after threatening a police officer with what looked like a sword and being shot by a different officer.

Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kari Thompson says officers responded to a home in northern Kansas City on Wednesday night shortly before midnight and found a man outside the rear of the residence.

Thompson says the man immediately became confrontational with officers and ignored their demands. She says the officers saw him in possession of a sword-like object, and one of the officers shot him after he threatened another with it.

The man died at the scene.

This one doesn’t have much coverage, but it appears that no attempts were made to arrest him with less than lethal means.