Reno-area man shot by deputies answering knife attack report
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Authorities in Reno say three people are hospitalized, including two people with knife injuries and a suspected assailant who was shot by at least one sheriff's deputy.
Washoe County sheriff's spokesman Bob Harmon told the Reno Gazette Journal that a man and woman were hospitalized with stab wounds after deputies responded about 11:20 p.m. Sunday to an address in the Lemmon Valley area.
Harmon didn't immediately respond to messages from The Associated Press.
He tells the newspaper the incident escalated into a deputy-involved shooting that left the male suspect wounded by gunfire.
Harmon says no deputies were injured.
Names of the suspect and the injured people were not immediately made public.