{"id":4087,"date":"2016-08-09T11:33:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T15:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lcpllutzlivetotell.org\/?p=4087"},"modified":"2016-08-22T11:45:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T15:45:33","slug":"sheriff-man-killed-officer-involved-shooting-veteran-ptsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/?p=4087","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff: Man killed in officer-involved shooting was veteran with PTSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lcpllutzlivetotell.org\/let\/\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\">back<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ng_byline_name\">By Glen Luke Flanagan<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">RICHLAND COUNTY, SC <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"story-target\" class=\"clearfix\">\n<div id=\"content-body-16196270-94561527\">\n<p>A man who <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/local\/article94505672.html\" target=\"_blank\">died after an hours-long standoff with Richland County deputies<\/a> Monday was a military veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, the sheriff said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<style>.mcclatchy-embed{position:relative;padding:40px 0 56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%}.mcclatchy-embed iframe{position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%}<\/style>\n<div class=\"mcclatchy-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article94562222.html\/video-embed\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Sheriff Leon Lott said deputies knew the man who shot himself and then was shot by a deputy at a home in the 2100 block of Wash Lever Road in Little Mountain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a sad situation,\u201d Lott said, adding that he wished things could have ended differently.<\/p>\n<p>Richland County Coroner Gary Watts identified the man Tuesday as James W. Jennings Jr. and said he died from multiple gunshot wounds to the upper body \u2013 one of which was self-inflicted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were multiple rounds, and any one of them could have been fatal,\u201d Watts said.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies responded to the home after Jennings pointed a weapon at his wife and threatened to kill her, Watts said.<\/p>\n<p>The man\u2019s wife was the one who called law enforcement, Lott said. Deputies were able to get her out of the house before the shooting. There were numerous guns in the home at the time of the incident, Lott said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to the domestic dispute at about 5 p.m. and found the suspect barricaded in his home, heavily armed, and heavily medicated, sheriff\u2019s spokesman Lt. Curtis Wilson said.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies tried to negotiate with Jennings for four hours, Wilson said \u2013 and during that time, the man was pointing a gun at the deputies, telling them to shoot him. As tensions grew, the deputies chose to shoot the suspect with a bean bag to neutralize the situation, Wilson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know what he was on \u2013 he wasn\u2019t listening to us at all,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cHe kept telling us to shoot him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bean bag did not deter the man, Wilson said.<\/p>\n<p>After Jennings was shot with the bean bag, he shot himself twice and then pointed the gun at a deputy, Wilson said. The deputy shot the man again, this time with his service weapon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took a long time for it to escalate to this,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cThey exercised a lot of patience with a man who threatened to shoot them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened around 9:15 p.m., according to the coroner. Watts said Jennings was taken to Palmetto Health Richland and died around 9:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nRead more here: http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article94561527.html#storylink=cpy<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; back By Glen Luke Flanagan RICHLAND COUNTY, SC A man who died after an hours-long standoff with Richland County deputies Monday was a military veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, the sheriff said Tuesday. 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