Police officers involved in shooting placed on leave

February 28, 2016 11:28 pm

By: News Staff

news@abc6.com

DARTMOUTH, Mass. – The Dartmouth police officers involved in a shooting this weekend have been placed on paid administrative leave as the investigation is underway.

Officers were called to Dartmouth Street around 4 p.m. for a report of a domestic violence incident between a mother and her son, 23-year-old Ryan Kuphal. Police say he drove away in his mother’s car and officers found him a short time later outside a home on Bush Street in South Dartmouth.

Police say Kuphal charged at responding officers while armed with a knife, according to a preliminary investigation. That led to an officer using a non-lethal taser on him, but that didn’t slow him down. One officer fired his gun and struck Kuphal one time.

The suspect remains in Rhode Island Hospital in where he is in stable condition, being treated for a single gunshot wound.

Kuphal has been charged with domestic assault and battery, use of a motor vehicle without authority, larceny over $250, unarmed robbery of a person over 60 years old, and unarmed carjacking.

Kuphal will be arraigned as a fugitive from justice and waive rendition before being returned to Massachusetts for arraignment on the aforementioned charges.

When he is eventually returned to Massachusetts, he will be arraigned in New Bedford District Court.

The officers will be on leave until the investigation ends.