PORT ANGELES — Police officers who shot and killed a 33-year-old man Monday night followed proper procedure after the man approached the officers with a shotgun.
“It appears they were following our policy to a ‘T’,” Port Angeles Police Sgt. Erick Zappey said Tuesday.
The man, identified as Carmen D. Hudson of Port Angeles, was shot by police Cpl. Tyler Peninger and Officer Glen Roggenbuck at about 9:30 p.m. Monday in the alley behind Hudson’s former girlfriend’s home at Front and Vine streets, where police were dispatched to a report of domestic violence.
Hudson was shot after he approached the officers and the woman against the officers’ commands and aimed a shotgun at them. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police Chief Tom Riepe placed Peninger and Roggenbuck, both veteran officers with the department, on paid administrative leave early Tuesday morning.
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The rest of the story — plus profiles of Carmen Hudson and eyewitness accounts — appears in the Wednesday Peninsula Daily News.