RPT-Double amputee in wheelchair shot dead by Houston police
September 23, 2012|Reuters  (Repeats without change to content)
Sept 23 (Reuters) - A double amputee in a wheelchair was shot
and killed by Houston police after threatening an officer with
what turned out to be a pen, local media reported on  The
shooting took place early Saturday morning at a home for the
mentally ill. An employee called police to report that resident
Brian Claunch was acting aggressively against a caretaker who
refused to give him a cigarette and a soda, the Houston
Chronicle reported.  Claunch, who had been diagnosed with
schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, had lost an arm and a leg in
a train accident and was sitting in a wheelchair. He trapped a
policeman in a corner with his wheelchair and tried to stab him
with an object later identified as a silver pen, the Chronicle
said.  When Claunch refused police orders to drop the object,
the trapped officer's partner shot and killed him, the newspaper
(Reporting by Jane Sutton; edi