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Both Spokane Valley officers fired at armed suspect

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by KREM.com

Posted on December 3, 2009 at 3:20 PM

Updated Thursday, Dec 3 at 7:24 PM

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SPOKANE VALLEY -- Spokane Police have released the names of the two officers who shot an armed man outside a Spokane Valley apartment last weekend.

Spokane Valley Police officers Ryan Walter and Rustin Olson were called to an apartment near 8910 E. Broadway Saturday night on the report of an argument.

Investigators say Walter and Olsen were confronted by Donald Lafavor, 65, who was armed with a handgun. Both Walter and Olsen fired at Lafavor, hitting and injuring him.

Both officers were hired in 2006 and will return to patrol duties on Monday.

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upthewazzu said on December 3, 2009 at 5:39 PM

Sounds like the cops did what they were supposed to do. Good work, boys in blue.

inspectors71 said on December 3, 2009 at 7:01 PM

The sad thing about police-involved shootings, where officers use deadly force as they have been trained, is that a significant number of them cannot forgive themselves, even though a police or civilian review board has ruled the shooting "righteous," to use an old term. These officers, even in the right, leave the profession because they can't accept their actions, no matter how obviously prudent they were. We lose good cops because they were good cops. I hope these officers are able to come back to work with a minimum of stressful self-second guessing.

dukeofearl said on December 4, 2009 at 12:14 PM

I fully agree as a retired police officer I fully understand the officers reactions. No police officer that I know of wants to take a life. To hasve to take deadly actions because an unstable person chooses to let an innocent officer do his dirty work is often a severe shock to the officer involved. I am afraid in light of the police killings in Washington some officers are going to be very jumpy when confronted by people with weapons or responding to weopons related calls