Arlington police shot and killed a man late Thursday in the 1700 block of West Lovers Lane, according to a news release.<\/p>\n
Officers were responding about 10:45\u00a0p.m. to a call of a man threatening to harm himself. During the response, one officer fired their gun at the man, according to the news release. The man, whom police did not identify, was taken to a hospital where he died.<\/p>\n
The man was armed with a knife, police said. However, they did not offer details about what led the officer to fire their weapon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Arlington Police Department is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n
No officers were injured.<\/p>\n
Arlington police will hold a news conference at 10 a.m. today to provide additional details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arlington police shot and killed a man late Thursday in the 1700 block of West Lovers Lane, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,732,223,87907,152322],"class_list":["post-440036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-article","tag-news","tag-tp-arlington","tag-tp-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}