A knife-wielding man is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries after being shot by police at the scene of a double homicide, officials said.
Officers from the Hillsborough Police Department were conducting a welfare check at a home on Cornell Trail on Thursday. Police entered the house at 6:23 p.m. and a man soon came out of a second-floor bedroom holding a knife, the state Attorney General’s Office said in a statement Friday afternoon.
The man was shot as he was advancing towards officers with the knife, authorities said. He is now in the hospital for treatment of critical injuries, officials said. A knife has been recovered from the scene, the state said.
After the shooting, the bodies of two adults, one male and one female, were found in separate bedrooms in the house, according to the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office. Both deaths are being investigated as homicides.
Authorities have not said whether the man shot by police is the suspect in the double homicide.
The names of the two homicide victims, the man with the knife and the officers involved have not been released.
The state Attorney General’s Office is investigating the police-involved shooting and the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office is leading the investigation of the double homicide.
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