GREENSBORO, N.C. — The Guilford County District Attorney's Office said a Greensboro Police Officer's use of deadly force in an incident that led to the death of a Greensboro man in June was justified.
According to the DA, officers responded to Crestridge Road in Greensboro on the morning of June 26 in reference to a "domestic situation" between Titus Kopp, his grandmother and her daughter.
Officers say the grandmother told dispatch that Kopp had broken into her home, ransacked it and threatened to hill her, her daughter and himself. When officers arrived, they found the grandmother sitting on the curb crying.
According to a press release, the grandmother told an officer that "her grandson just got out of jail, broke into her home and was threatening to kill himself with a knife."
As officers approached the grandmother's residence, Kopp ran out of the house toward them with a knife saying, "I have no intentions of living."
Officers say they told Kopp to put down the knife. When he didn't and kept coming toward them with the blade raised, Kopp was shot twice by an officer. He was transported to a local hospital but died from his injuries.
The Guilford County District Attorney's Office said the use of force was justified "by both the common law principle of self-defense and by the statutory provisions of NCGS 15A-401(d)(2), which permits the use of deadly force by a law enforcement officer to defend himself or another from what he believes to be the imminent use of deadly force."
No charges will be pressed against the officer involved in the shooting.
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