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:
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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