Suicidal Man's Girlfriend Calls for Help, Cops Fatally Shoot Him

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http://gawker.com/suicidal-mans-girlfriend-calls-for-help-cops-fatally-s-1707513688

When a Florida man told his girlfriend he planned to kill himself, she called the St. John’s County Sheriff’s Office for help. He’s “threatened to kill himself twice now; what do I do and who do I call?” she asked the 911 operator, adding “He recently lost his job, in addition to he’s also been drinking.”

Two deputies responded to the condo where 28-year-old Justin Way lay in bed holding the serrated knife he was threatening to use on himself. They told his girlfriend to wait outside, entered his bedroom, and shot him in the chest and abdomen, allegedly before he could even sit up.

Way’s girlfriend Kaitlyn Lyons, told the Daily Beast that she assumed Way would be “Baker Acted”—involuntarily committed for his own protection—and that he never threatened to hurt her or anyone else with the knife.

Although Lyons can be heard on the 911 call saying that Way wouldn’t hurt her, the police report given to Way’s father says he attacked two deputies with a knife. George Way finds that strange, though, because he saw the mattress from his son’s room.