A man was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries after he was shot by a Barren County Sheriff’s Deputy Monday morning.
Kentucky State Police spokesman Jonathan Biven says authorities were called to the scene of a reported stabbing on South Gassaway Road. Officers then pursued a Chevy Equinox to a spot on New Bowling Green Road. Biven says the driver of that car, 22-year-old David Smith of Bowling Green, approached the sheriff’s deputy with a pair of scissors. When a Taser deployment didn’t work, Deputy Kevin Wilson shot Smith. No law enforcement officials were injured in the altercation.
Deputy Wilson has been placed on routine administrative leave as an investigation continues. Smith was taken to T.J. Samson Community Hospital.
