A Deputy U.S. Marshal has shot and killed a Louisville man as police attempted to serve felony warrants on the decedent.
Friday morning at approximately 8:30, U.S. Marshals arrived at a home on 37th Street in the Chickasaw neighborhood to serve warrants for first-degree strangulation, assault and domestic violence on 25-year-old Omari Cryer, according to Louisville police.
Cryer, per a report by the Louisville Courier-Journal, ran from the residence toward the 800 block of Sutcliffe Avenue where an altercation took place resulting in Cryer being shot multiple times by a Marshal.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
At the request of U.S. Marshals Service, the Louisville Metro Police Department Public Integrity Unit is investigating the shooting.
No other details have been released.
(Photo: Omari Cryer, courtesy of WLKY.com)
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
