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State authorities investigate officer-involved shooting in small Iowa town; man shot multiple times after presenting knife

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PANORA, IOWA – State authorities are investigating an officer-involved shooting in a small Iowa town in which a man was shot multiple times after threatening people with a knife.

On Sunday, July 1, 2018, the Guthrie County Dispatch Center received a 911 call at approximately 7:19 pm in reference to a report of a male subject with a knife threatening people in an apartment complex. The Panora Police Department responded to an apartment building at 502 West Market Street in Panora.

Upon arriving at the address, law enforcement located a male subject in the apartment hallway. The male subject confronted law enforcement with a knife. Law enforcement ordered the subject to drop the knife several times but the male subject refused to drop the knife. An officer with the Panora Police Department engaged the subject and fired his weapon striking the male subject. The subject was given medical aid but later died from his injuries.

The body was transported to the Iowa Office of the State Medical Examiner in Ankeny, Iowa, where an autopsy was conducted.

The Panora Police Department is being assisted in the investigation by Agents from the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, the Crime Scene Team from the DCI Criminalistics Laboratory, Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office, and the Iowa State Patrol.

Authorities later revealed the subject in the shooting was identified as Joshua B. Reed, 26, of New Virginia, Iowa. The autopsy of Reed was conducted today by the Office of the State Medical Examiner in Ankeny, Iowa. The cause of death was multiple gunshot wounds and the manner of death was ruled homicide.

The Panora Police officer involved in the shooting is Officer Rock Armstrong. Officer Armstrong has been an officer for 17 years. Officer Armstrong is on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.

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