PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) -- New Castle County Police have identified the man who officers shot and killed early Wednesday after he allegedly tried to run them over.
Police say 30-year-old Lymond Moses of Bear, Delaware, was in a suspicious car in Wilmington, and when officers approached him around 1 a.m., Moses drove down a dead end, made a U-turn, and sped up towards the cops, who shot him.
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The cops tried first aid, and medics arrived at the scene, but the driver was soon pronounced dead.
New Castle County police policy holds that shooting at a car allowed only as a last resort if the car is being used as a deadly weapon and if innocent people are not at risk from the gunfire.
The officers, a 10-year and a three-year veteran, are on administrative leave, while the shooting and the events leading up to it, are under investigation.