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International Desk: A police officer in the US state of Michigan has shot dead a man suspected of stabbing a customer in a shop, in an altercation over face masks.<\/p>\nInternational Desk: A police officer in the US state of Michigan has shot dead a man suspected of stabbing a customer in a shop, in an altercation over face masks.<\/p>\n
Police say the incident began in a convenience store near Lansing, where the suspect – named as Sean Ruis – attacked a 77-year-old man who had challenged him for not wearing a mask.<\/p>\n
They say Ruis fled the scene in a car.<\/p>\n
He was later pulled over by a female deputy sheriff, who opened fire when Ruis lunged towards her, BBC reported.<\/p>\n
Michigan State Police released footage of the confrontation in a residential area in the Lansing suburb of Delta early on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
It shows the police car stopping a vehicle and the driver, identified as Ruis, advancing on the deputy who shoots him after a brief tussle.<\/p>\n
Police say Ruis, 43, was carrying a weapon. He was taken to hospital, where he was declared dead.<\/p>\n
The incident happened 30 minutes after Ruis allegedly stabbed a customer at the Quality Dairy store in Dimondale, about six miles (10km) to the south.<\/p>\n
The row is said to have begun when the 77-year-old – who was wearing a face mask – chided Ruis for not doing so. The elderly man is in hospital and said to be in a stable condition.<\/p>\n
It is not the first dispute over face masks to end in tragedy in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
International Desk: A police officer in the US state of Michigan has shot dead a man suspected of stabbing a customer in a shop, in an altercation over face masks. Police say the incident began in a convenience store near Lansing, where the suspect – named as Sean Ruis – attacked a 77-year-old man who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":60780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n