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Police in Las Vegas are providing more information on an incident over the weekend involving three officers firing rounds that killed the subject of a welfare check.

Assistant Sheriff Sasha Larkin said the call started as a missing persons case in the middle of the night. Police arrived to a home in the east/southeast command area just before 3 a.m. on November 25 and confirmed with the family that a kitchen knife was missing.

Family members informed police that the 51-year-old Robert Pitcher was grieving the loss of his son who died of an overdose in October, stating Pitcher expressed wanting to go be with his recently deceased son.