NLR officer involved in Wednesday shooting identified

March 7, 2014 at 4:05 p.m.

by Arkansas Online

North Little Rock police officers gather evidence Wednesday afternoon at the scene of an officer-involved shooting in front of First Presbyterian Church at the corner of West Fourth and Maple streets in downtown North Little Rock. Police say a man causing a disturbance on a city bus was fatally shot after being removed from the bus and attacking an officer with a wooden cane.
North Little Rock police officers gather evidence Wednesday afternoon at the scene of an officer-involved shooting in front of First Presbyterian Church at the corner of West Fourth and Maple streets in downtown North Little Rock. Police say a man causing a disturbance on a city bus was fatally shot after being removed from the bus and attacking an officer with a wooden cane.

The North Little Rock Police Department officer who fatally shot a man after, police say, he assaulted the officer with a cane has been identified as Chris Gann, department spokesman Brian Dedrick said in a news release Friday.

Gann shot and killed 52-year-old Robert Storay of Little Rock after Gann responded to a distress call at the 400 block of Maple Street about a man causing a disturbance on a Central Arkansas Transit bus, the North Little Rock Police Department said. After Gann removed Storay from the bus, police say, Storay purportedly attacked Gann with a brass-and-wooden cane, which precipitated the shooting. Gann was briefly hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries as a result of the attack.

Storay had a history of "irrational behavior" and drug abuse, and in one case he threatened Little Rock police officers with a cane, according to Little Rock Police Department reports.

Gann, a 17-year veteran of the department, regularly patrols downtown North Little Rock and is a member of the North Little Rock Police Department Honor Guard, Dedrick said. Per department policy, he remains on administrative leave pending the results of an investigation of the shooting.

For more on this story, read Saturday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

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