BURLINGTON, Iowa —

The Iowa attorney general's office says a Des Moines County sheriff's deputy acted with legal justification when he fatally shot a man while responding to a domestic disturbance in rural Burlington last month.

On Aug. 5, deputies were dispatched to the domestic disturbance shortly after 9 p.m. The caller had reported that her live-in boyfriend, David Maupin, was intoxicated, causing property damage and possessed a shotgun in front of her and her 3-year-old child.

According to the attorney general's office, when Deputy Brett Haubrich arrived at the scene, Maupin was in a dark, detached garage. Maupin exited the garage but refused to comply with the deputy's commands and told the deputy he was going to shoot him before going back into the garage.

Maupin left the gara

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