The investigation continues into the circumstances surrounding a city police officer's fatal shooting of a 46-year-old man on 10th Street SW shortly after the new year began.
The man shot was armed when the shooting occurred, according to the Canton Police Department. He was later identified as James Williams.
Police said they went to the 2300 block of 10th Street SW just after midnight Saturday in response to a report of gunfire.

According to a statement from the Canton Police Chief Jack Angelo:
".... the officer, who was outside of his vehicle, confronted a subject that began shooting a firearm. The officer, in fear for his safety, fired his duty weapon at the subject and struck him."

He wrote that the person who was shot got first aid before Canton fire paramedics rushed him in an ambulance to a hospital.
The officer involved in the shooting was not named in the Police Department press statement.

Harry Campbell, chief investigator of the Stark County Coroner's Office, said the shot person got to Aultman Hospital at 12:25 a.m. Aultman is about a half mile from where the police shooting occurred. A hospital doctor pronounced him dead at 12:27 a.m.
Because it's an officer-involved shooting, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is overseeing the investigation, Angelo's statement said. He wrote that Canton Police have turned over all evidence in the case, including body camera footage and guns linked to the incident over to BCI investigators.

Angelo referred questions to BCI and has not responded to additional inquiries about the fatal confrontation.

A spokesman for the BCI declined to comment on specifics of the case Sunday,.
Angelo wrote that the police officer has been placed on administrative leave, a standard move after an officer-involved shooting.

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