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POLICE SHOOTING UPDATE
Prosecuting Attorney Says Police Involved Shooting Was Justified

Reported by: Send eMail Martin Hicks
Web Producer: Mamie Buoy
Reported: Jan. 25, 2012 4:59 PM EST


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Saint Albans , Kanawha County , West Virginia

Kanawha County's Prosecuting Attorney says a SWAT team shooting in Saint Albans was justified.

Mark Plants says, based on evidence, the SWAT team was within the law last year when shooting Omar Cowan.

Cowan is the man who barricaded himself, his wife and four children in an apartment in Amandaville.

After negotiations for two hours, the SWAT team confronted Cowan and he charged them armed with knives. Cowan was then shot and killed.

Cowan had released his family prior to the shooting.



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