A Louisville Metro Police officer shot and killed a man while responding to a report of a shooting early Monday morning.

The shooting occurred on the 5500 block of Ridgecrest Road, near GE Appliance Park. LMPD officers were dispatched to the area on a report of a woman being shot. Before they could attend to the woman’s injuries, a police spokesperson said, officers were approached by a man in the street who was holding a handgun. LMPD officers ordered the man to drop his weapon.

“The male continued to walk towards the officers while raising his handgun in their direction,” spokesperson Aaron Ellis said in a statement. “One officer discharged his firearm, striking the male suspect at least one time.”

Both the man and the woman were transported to the UofL Hospital downtown in critical c

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