Hettinger Co: Deputy uses deadly force in school encounter

4:00 PM Update:

A sheriff’s deputy killed a man inside a North Dakota public school after the man refused orders to leave the building.

The Hettinger County Sheriff’s Office said the deputy was responding to a report of a disturbance at Mott-Regent school about 3 p.m. Thursday when he was attacked by a man identified as Jeffrie Ray Glover Jr.

The sheriff’s office said in a release it was a “lethal force scenario” but did not state how the man was killed.

No students or staff at the school were injured.

No other details were provided by sheriff’s officials or the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office.

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Original post:

Officials say the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating the use of deadly force on a man by a Hettinger County sheriff’s deputy inside a school.

A release from the Hettinger County Sheriff’s Office says a deputy responded to a disturbance at Mott-Regent public school about 3 p.m. Thursday and made contact with a man who refused to leave the property.

The statement said the encounter escalated into an assault on the deputy resulting in a “lethal force scenario.”

Officials identified the man who died as Jeffrie Ray Glover Jr.

No other details were provided by sheriff’s officials.

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AP

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