UPDATE, 4:15 p.m.: Police have now identified the man killed in an armed standoff this morning in Harold.
Henry Foster, 33, of Raven, Va., has been identified as the man killed following a two-hour standoff with police outside of the Harold Dollar General store.
In a statement issued by Kentucky State Police, officers were called to the store around 8 a.m., because Foster was trying to get into cars in the parking lot and asking people for a ride out of the area.
When police arrived, they say Foster pulled a gun and began threatening to shoot himself. Police attempted to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the standoff.
But just before 10 a.m., a state trooper discharged his weapon. The state police statement does not indicate what prompted him to fire his gun.
Police say life-saving measures were employed but unsuccessful, and Foster died at the scene.
The Kentucky State Police Critical Incident Response Team is continuing to investigate the incident.
ORIGINAL STORY: HAROLD, Ky. — A suspect is dead following a two-hour standoff with police at the Harold Dollar General, along Route 680, in Floyd County
Floyd County Sheriff John Hunt told Mountain Top News that it all began Sunday night. Hunt said the man was involved in a crash on Route 1426, but ran away on foot, leaving an injured female passenger behind.
Hunt said the man remained on the run throughout the night, but police were called to Dollar General around 8 a.m. Monday, over a report of a suspicious person in the parking lot. Kentucky State Police, the Floyd County Sheriff’s Office and Prestonsburg Police responded to the scene, and from that point on, the man held officers at bay with a gun, while police tried to negotiate his surrender.
Just after 10 a.m., five shots rang out and an ambulance was called to the scene. Hunt said he did not know the events that prompted the shooting.
No officers were injured during the standoff.
