Officers justified in the fatally shooting of a suspect who followed a woman to a police station

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Lawrence County Prosecutor Samuel C. Arp II says he’s determined that Bedford Police officers were justified in a deadly shooting in September.

The prosecutor issued a statement saying police shot 47-year-old Daymond Hubbard when he accelerated toward an officer with his car. Toxicology results showed Hubbard had a blood alcohol level of .097 and had amphetamine in his system at the time of his death.

Hubbard’s mother and brother visited the Bedford Police department earlier that day, saying that Daymond had intruded in the mother’s home and threatened to kill her if she went to the police. She also told officers her 84-year-old husband was at home and needed to be removed to safety.

Police accompanied her and Hubbard’s brother to her house, where they found Hubbard driving through the backyard. Hubbard refused to leave his SUV and became “verbally combative” toward police, according to the statement. After a chase, police managed to box in Hubbard’s car. That’s when police say he reversed, hit a police car and drove toward an officer. Three police officers shot at Hubbard, wounding him. He died in a Bedford hospital later that night.

Members of Hubbard's own family disagree with the prosecutor's conclusion. One posted on Facebook that the deceased was experiencing mental illness when he was “executed by the police instead of offering to help.”

“This is why people in a crisis don’t get help,” she continued in her post. “For fear of what could happen if the police get involved!”

His sister shared in another post one month after Daymon's death that she prays the three officers involved “will never again get to wear a badge or carry a gun.”
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Southern Indiana police fatally shot a man overnight as they were investigating a woman's complaint about a man who was harassing her and had followed her to a police station, police said Friday.

Daymon A. Hubbard, 47, of Bedford, died at a hospital after Thursday night's shooting, Indiana State Police said.

The state agency said a woman who arrived about 10 p.m. at the Bedford Police Department to file a harassment complaint told officers that a man, later identified as Hubbard, had followed her to the police station and described his vehicle to them.

Five minutes later, a Bedford police officer spotted what he believed to be the man's vehicle and followed it until initiating a pursuit, during which the suspect's subcompact SUV struck a patrol car.

When “the incident escalated,” three Bedford police officers fired their weapons around 10:30 p.m., state police said without elaborating. Hubbard later succumbed to gunshot wounds at a Bedford hospital.