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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — More than a year after a Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office sergeant shot and killed a man, the district attorney has decided the sergeant is immune from prosecution.
According to investigators, the sergeant shot Larry Armour, 43, as Armour stood over an innocent 75-year-old man with a knife and threatened to cut off the man’s head.
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The shooting happened in January 2024. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation investigated the shooting and presented these details to the district attorney:
- On Jan. 24, 2024, a woman called 911 and reported that Armour, her ex-boyfriend, had threatened her with a knife and hammer if she did not give him the keys to her SUV. She gave him the keys.
- About an hour later, at 11:30 p.m., two Wichita police officers spotted the stolen SUV and tried to pull it over. The SUV kept going, leading to a 14-minute chase.
- It ended when Armour stopped the vehicle near a multi-apartment complex in the 2400 block of E. Harry . Investigators say he forced his way into the back door of an apartment and barricaded himself inside. A 75-year-old man was in the home.
- For more than three hours, police tried to talk Armour into coming out or freeing the 75-year-old. During that time, Armour said he was withdrawing from Percocet and would let the man go if he got Percocet. At other times, he said he did not want the man to get hurt and that the man was free to leave. The officer talking with Armour concluded that the 75-year-old may not have wanted to leave his residence.
- At 3:03 a.m., SWAT decided to breach the home. A sheriff’s office sergeant was at the southeast window of the home as other officers tried to use a vehicle ram on the front door. The sergeant saw Armour holding a knife over the 75-year-old man and yelling that he was going to cut the man’s head off. The sergeant fired one round, hitting Armour. EMS took Armour to the hospital, where he died at 3:37 a.m. on Jan. 25, 2024.
A KBI agent who interviewed the 75-year-old man at the hospital said the man was slurring his speech and thought the whole incident was a “dream.” He told the agent that he first thought the person in his home was his son. He said they made each other bourbon drinks to calm the man down.
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The man also did not remember being hurt or threatened or how he got to the hospital. Officers described the man as being visibly intoxicated…