TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - One man is dead following an officer-involved shooting that occurred during a police response at a Tyler home Thursday night.

According to Tyler Police Department spokesperson Andy Erbaugh, the incident began at around 7 p.m. in the 3100 block of Cascades Court.

Erbaugh said the call was first reported as a suspicious person but later developed into a disturbance with the man, John Augustine Tangney O’Kelly, 38, inside the home. Erbaugh said officers then entered the home where they saw O’Kelly with a noose around his neck.

Erbaugh said officers got him down and, not long after, the incident escalated into an officer-involved shooting.

Police have not said how it escalated into an officer-involved shooting at this time.

O’Kelly was taken to a nearby hospital wher

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