Two officers are on administrative leave, and a family is mourning following a shooting in Deer Park on Wednesday morning.
Officers with the Deer Park Police Department were called to the intersections of East Boulevard and East P Street after the man was reportedly seen screaming about political topics with knives in his hands and kicking cars at a stop light.
Deer Park police said they shot and killed the man because he reportedly charged at officers with knives .
Police said they gave multiple verbal commands and tased him before officers used deadly force.
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That man lived less than a mile from the intersection where he died.
Police have yet to identify the man killed, but his devastated family identified him as William Sparkman, a 23-year-old with paranoid schizophrenia.
The Sparkman family said they feel the system failed them on many levels.
“We needed the system to see it so he could get the treatment,” the 23-year-old’s father, David Sparkman, said. “We couldn’t do it.”