Man fatally shot by Greene County deputies

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A man was fatally shot Friday morning by deputies in southwest Missouri who responded to a convenience store theft near Springfield, according to a sheriff there.

The shooting happened shortly after Green County Sheriff’s deputies were called around 8:15 a.m. to the store just southwest of Springfield for a report of a woman stealing from the store, Sheriff Jim Arnott told television station KY3.

The store clerk identified the woman as having been involved in an earlier theft, and deputies learned she had run across the road to an abandoned house, where they found and arrested her.

Deputies said they then encountered 43-year-old Michael Gann who was holding a gun to his head who told them, “shoot me, I’m not going back,” Arnott said.

The deputies shot  Gann when he lunged at them, according to the sheriff.

It’s unclear whether Gann fired the gun at deputies, Arnott said. His department and several other sheriff’s departments are investigating the shooting, he said.