Officials with the Iowa Department of Public Safety report the Guthrie County Dispatch Center received a 911 call at approximately 7:19-pm Sunday, in reference to a report of a man with a knife threatening people in an apartment complex. The Panora Police Department responded to an apartment building at 502 West Market Street, in Panora. Upon arriving at the address, law enforcement located a man in the apartment hallway.  He confronted law enforcement with a knife.  Officers ordered the man to drop the knife several times, but he refused. An officer with the Panora Police Department engaged the subject and fired his weapon striking the man, who was given medical aid but later died from his injuries.

His body was transported to the Iowa Office of the State Medical Examiner in Ankeny, where an autopsy will be conducted. The officer involved in the incident has been placed on paid administrative leave until the completion of the investigation. The Panora Police Department is being assisted in the investigation by Agents from the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, the Crime Scene Team from the DCI Criminalistics Laboratory, Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office, and the Iowa State Patrol.

Authorities say no additional information will be released at this time.