Police: Officer shoots man holding “box cutter-style knife” in Allen Park

The Michigan State Police are investigating after a Lincoln Park officer shot and injured a 36-year-old man armed with a box cutter-style knife in Allen Park on Sunday afternoon, officials said.

Officers were called to the area of Southfield Road near Roger Avenue around 3:20 p.m. for a report that a subject, later identified as the man, was carrying the knife and posing a danger to himself, according to police. Officers from Lincoln Park also responded to the incident.

Police found the Lincoln Park man near a 7 Brew Coffee on Southfield Road. Officials said he was “posing a threat to himself and others and the officers deployed a Taser, which had no effect” on him…

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