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Prince George's Co. officer shoots, kills man in struggle over gun

Prince George's County police say an officer shot and killed a man who was struggling with a second officer over her gun.

Officers were called Saturday to a home on Andean Goose Way in Upper Marlboro, where a woman told them her son, 20-year-old Charles Odell Smith, was acting erratically.

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When officers tried to take Smith to a hospital for an evaluation, police say he tried to flee and assaulted an officer trying to stop him. Officers tried to stop Smith using a stun gun and other less-lethal methods, but when Smith grabbed for one officer's gun, police say the other officer, Officer Harry Bond, fired. Smith was taken to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Bond has been placed on routine administrative leave.

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