BRPD Officer-Involved Shooting Last Night

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BATON ROUGE - The East Baton Rouge Coroner’s Office says a man who was shot during an officer-involved shooting on North Foster Drive early Tuesday morning died from multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and back. Family members identified the man killed by a Baton Rouge police officer early Tuesday morning. Alton Sterling, known as the "CD Man" was shot to death by police outside the Triple-S convenience store on North Foster Drive and Fairfields Avenue. The coroner confirmed the cause of death later on Tuesday after an autopsy was performed on Sterling's remain. Police say they responded to an anonymous call around 12:30 a.m. about a man selling CDs who also had a gun on him. When police arrived, Sterling and officers got into an altercation. One officer shot and killed Sterling. The store's owner Abdul Muflahi said he was just a few feet away when he watched the shooting happen. He said at first Sterling and the officers were arguing. Then he said he saw the officers wrestle with Sterling against a car, throw him to the ground, and tase him in order to subdue him. After tasing him, according to Muflahi, Sterling appeared to be unfazed and police shot Sterling four to six times. "I don't think it was handled correctly at all," said Muflahi. "It could have been handled, the situation, better than it did."

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