Associated Press
SEATTLE — Police say a man who was shot by an officer near a Seattle homeless encampment known as The Jungle has died.
The Seattle Police Department said in a news release that the man shot by a female officer Tuesday afternoon had been in the midst of a knife fight with another man.
Police say the man shot was critically injured and died later Tuesday at a Seattle hospital.
The officer who fired the weapon during the incident will be placed on paid administrative leave during the investigation.
Neither she nor the men involved in the incident have been identified.
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