Friday around 3 p.m. Charleston police shot and killed a man who has been identified as Andrew Moore.
Moore, 25, was shot and killed after ignoring officers' orders to drop his weapon, as he was holding a knife to his pregnant fiancée’s throat.
He had previously been arrested and charged with kidnapping in January for holding his girlfriend against her will.
Friday's incident began just before 3 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) when police responded to a 911 call placed by a relative of Moore's fiancée. The caller told dispatchers that Moore threatened to harm her relative's child, and that there were probably weapons involved.
When officers arrived at the home in the Orchard Manor housing complex, Moore reportedly held a knife to the pregnant woman's throat and verbally threatened to harm her.
“He told the officers he was going to cut her, kill her and they had better shoot him. They begged him to drop the weapon. He would not. The victim was in imminent danger of her life so officers opened fire and ended the threat to the victim, and her unborn child.”
