MIKANA, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Justice is investigating after a sheriff’s deputy shot a man in Barron County.
The DOJ says sheriff’s deputies were called to check on a man in Mikana who had reportedly threatened a neighbor. Deputies found the man had barricaded himself in a room at a residence Wednesday evening.
Law enforcement officers tried talking to the man, but DOJ says at one point he raised his gun at a deputy who then fired, striking the suspect.
He was given medical support and airlifted to a regional hospital where he is in critical, but stable condition. No one else was injured.
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