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DEPUTIES INVOLVED IN FATAL RANDOLPH COUNTY SHOOTING

(Union City, IN)--There was an officer-involved shooting in Randolph County late Tuesday afternoon.  According to the Indiana State Police, deputies were sent to a house in the 400 block of East Elm Street in Union City on the report of an overdose.  Deputies were told that the person had left and they began checking the area.  Deputies then encountered a 19-year-old Muncie man in the small village of New Pittsburg.  Within a minute, he produced a handgun and fired at two deputies.  Deputies returned fire and he was later pronounced dead.  Those deputies have been placed on administrative leave, which is department procedure.