Here’s what we know now:
Police say there was a confrontation. Police were called to a report of a shooting around 3 p.m. Sunday at the Knollwood Crossing apartments on Forest Park Drive, said Hamilton Police Chief Craig Bucheit.
When the officer arrived “he was immediately confronted by an armed subject,” Bucheit said.
That person, a white man who was about 20 years but that police have not yet named, was armed with what police described as a butcher knife.
“There was a brief confrontation and in that confrontation the officer discharged his weapon,” Bucheit said.
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The man died at the scene. The identity of the deceased man will not be released until after his next of kin are notified and an autopsy is completed by the Butler County Coroner's Office. That will likely be today, according to the police chief.
Bucheit also said the identity of the officer involved in the shooting will not be released until today. Bucheit said the officer involved was not injured.
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The police officer was not wearing a body camera. But investigators will review the cruiser camera, Bucheit said.
Uniformed police officers in Hamilton have been testing body cameras.
CLOSER LOOK: Benefits, drawbacks of police cameras still being debated.
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One witness says he did not see man with weapon. Francis Adu, 41, a resident of the complex, said he didn't see any weapon in the man's hands seconds before the shooting.
Adu said a Hamilton police cruiser — without its lights or sirens activated — pulled in behind him in the complex and parked his vehicle in the parking lot. Adu parked his car in front of his apartment, and watched from his car as the man, shirtless and wearing a black scarf around his face, took two steps toward the officer with his arms in the air, he said.
Adu said he was interviewed by detectives at the Hamilton police station on Saturday.
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