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Keith Lamont Scott Identified as Disabled Black Man Shot Dead by NC Police While Reading in Car

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Updated Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, 9 p.m. EDT: The victim's daughter, Lyric Scott, has gone live again from a growing protest in response to the police shooting of her father. (Livestream was deleted).

Earlier:

A disabled black man has died at the hospital after being shot by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., police officer Tuesday afternoon on Old Concord Road in University City, a subdivision of Charlotte.

Police said that they were searching for someone who had outstanding warrants when they saw a man with what they believed to be a gun leave a vehicle.

According to police reports, the man, who has not been named, returned to his vehicle. Police claim that when they approached the man, he "posed an imminent deadly threat to the officers," according to the New York Times, and one of them opened fire. An eyewitness reportedly told the victim's daughter that a Taser was used on her father, and then he was shot at least three times.

Medics arrived and the injured man was taken to Carolinas Medical Center, where he was later pronounced dead.

The victim was not the subject of the initial search, said Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney.

The police officer who pulled the trigger has not been named. Police have said, per protocol, that the officer will be placed on administrative leave.

The victim's daughter, identified on Facebook as Lyric YourAdorable Scott, found out that her father was dead via the news while recording from the scene of the shooting. The victim's brother said that he was holding a book, not a gun, and was just waiting on his son to be dropped off after school.


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