Posted on July 5, 2011 at 7:01 PM
Updated yesterday at 10:43 PM
Tania Dall / Eyewitness News
METAIRIE, La. -- Jefferson Parish deputies responding to a domestic violence call shot and killed a man who was pointing a weapon at them Tuesday night in Metairie, according to the sheriff's office.
"I just heard the seven shots," said Douglas Glavin, a resident who lives near the scene of the shooting. "One after another, like a machine gun."
Neighbors came home from work to find part of Green Acres Road blocked off by police tape. The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office says someone called from outside the house to say that inside 52-year-old Warren Daris was threatening his wife with a knife.
Deputies arrived on the scene just after after 6 p.m.
"The officers approached a house, they saw a subject who was standing inside, but the subject was holding a handgun at this time," Dyess said. "The subject pointed the handgun at our officers. At least four of our officers fired several shots at him, striking him, and he was pronounced dead on the scene."
Daris has been identified as the shooting victim. The JPSO has confirmed the woman inside the house and the deputies who responded were all unharmed.
The sheriff's office isn't releasing how many shots were fired or how many times Daris was hit.
"My grandchildren looked out the door, and they said 'Yiayia,' which is Grandma in Greek, 'there's cops, police all over the place,'" said neighbor Janet Sklepas.
The shooting drew in curious neighbors wanting to know exactly what happened on their quiet block, including Sklepas and her three grandchildren.
"This has been a quiet neighborhood. I more or less raised my grandchildren here," Sklepas said. "They used to run around the front yard, ride their tricycles up and down the street and that. It's a shock."
This is an ongoing investigation, and there's no word on whether there will be disciplinary action for the deputies who responded to the scene.
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