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Man who was killed in Piqua officer Identified-Whio TV 7 and WHIO Radio

Piqua investigators identified the man who was shot in Piqua on Friday.

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Malik Patterson from News Center 7 is in Piqua and works to learn more about the shootout. He will have the last evening in News Center 7 this evening at 5:00 a.m.

David C. West, 44, was identified on Monday morning in a release from the city of Piqua.

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As already reported, the shootout occurred in a house in the 200 Block of the McKinley Avenue south of US 36 shortly before 5 p.m. Friday.

At around 4.44 p.m., four officials responded to a complaint against domestic violence in which west supposedly attacked his 65-year-old mother, the city's public information officer explained in an release.

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When the officials got the scene, West was in the basement of the house. He told the police that he had a pistol and supposedly refused to get up or show his hands after “adding several verbal commands”.

“When West became visible to the officials with a weapon, Lt. Marcos Rodriguez shot,” said the release from the city.

West died at the scene.

Rodriguez was not injured in the shootout.

The city said that no criminal charges would be submitted because West “the attacker was with domestic violence in the incident”.

Rodriguez was in the paid administrative

Last year there was a shootout in the officer in the city, but the public information officer confirmed that it was the first fatal shootout since July 1988.