Metro IDs officers involved in Friday shooting

Police respond to an officer-involved shooting in the 6900 block of Berkshire Place on Friday, Aug. 7, 2015, in Las Vegas. Police checking reports of a broken window shot and killed a man who lunged at officers with a sharp object inside a home. (Ronda Churchill/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

People sit in a garage at a home located in the 6900 block of Berkshire Place Friday, Aug. 7, 2015, in Las Vegas. Police checking reports of a broken window shot and killed a man who lunged at officers with a sharp object inside a home. (Ronda Churchill/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Las Vegas police investigate an officer-involved shooting in the southwest valley in the 6900 block of Berkshire Place, near the intersection of Rainbow Boulevard and Tropicana on Friday, Aug. 7, 2015. Police checking reports of a broken window shot and killed a man who lunged at officers with a sharp object inside a home. BIZUAYEHU TESFAYE/LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL / FOLLOW HIM:

Public Information Officer Jesse Roybal speaks to the news media about an officer-involved shooting at the 6900 block of Berkshire Place Friday, Aug. 7, 2015, in Las Vegas. Police checking reports of a broken window shot and killed a man who lunged at officers with a sharp object inside a home. (Ronda Churchill/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Mobile Command responds to an officer-involved shooting in the 6900 block of Berkshire Place Friday, Aug. 7, 2015, in Las Vegas. Police checking reports of a broken window shot and killed a man who lunged at officers with a sharp object inside a home. (Ronda Churchill/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

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By Ricardo Torres Las Vegas Review-Journal

August 10, 2015 - 4:53 pm

Metro on Monday identified the two officers who shot a man they said sprung at them holding a "sharp object" Friday morning.

Officers Glen Taylor, 50, and Eli Prunchak, 41, are on routine paid administrative leave while detectives investigate the shooting, Metro said.

Police were called Friday morning to a house in the 6900 block of Berkshire Place, near the intersection of Rainbow Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue, after they received a call about a broken window at a house next door.

As they were investigating, they found Abel Correa, 24, of Las Vegas, hiding in a closet, police said.

Correa, police said, sprung at officers with a sharp object and was shot. He died at University Medical Center.

Taylor has been with Metro since 2000 and Prunchak since 1999, according to police.

Contact Ricardo Torres at rtorres@reviewjournal.com and 702-383-0381. Find him on Twitter: @rickytwrites.

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