Police fatally shoot double amputee on wheelchair

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A Houston police officer shot and killed a one-armed, one-legged man in a wheelchair last Saturday inside a group home after police say the double amputee threatened the officer and aggressively waved a metal object that turned out to be a pen.

The officer and his partner arrived at the group home around 2:30 a.m. and there were several people at the house at the time. The caretaker who called police waited on the porch while the officers went inside.

The man subsequently cornered the officer in his wheelchair and was making threats while trying to stab the officer with the pen. At the time, the officer did not know what the metal object was that the man was waving. He came "within inches to a foot" of the officer and did not follow instructions to calm down and remain still.

"It was close quarters in the area of the house. The officer was forced into an area where he had no way to get out. Fearing for his partner's safety and his own safety, he discharged his weapon," a police spokesperson said.

The owner of the group home, John Garcia, told the Houston Chronicle that the man had a history of mental illness and had been living at the house about 18 months.

The officer, identified as one Matthew Jacob Marin, a five-year veteran of the department, was immediately placed on three-day administrative leave, which is standard in all shootings involving officers.

Houston police records indicate that Marin had also fatally shot a suspect in 2009. Investigators at the time said Marin came upon a man stabbing his neighbor to death at an apartment complex and opened fired when the suspect refused to drop the knife.