Authorities say a man is hospitalized after he pulled a gun on law enforcement officers and was shot in Montrose.

It happened at around 1 p.m. Monday outside the Dollar General store along Highway 12, the Wright County Sheriff’s Office says.

Deputies went to the store to arrest a man on outstanding warrants but, as the man came outside, he refused to comply and pulled out a gun, according to the sheriff’s office.

The department added that the deputies deployed less-lethal measures but the man continued to resist arrest, leading a deputy to shoot the man.

It wasn’t immediately clear how seriously the man was hurt or what his warrants were related to. However, the sheriff’s office says the man was taken to a hospital and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is now investigating.

“It was real rapid and just really loud for me, it just startled me,” John Pususta, who lives across the street from the Dollar General, told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS about the gunfire.

Pususta said he heard those shots while working in his garage.

“I saw the deputies, who I assumed were deputies, say ‘drop your weapon,’ and then I saw the suspect scuttle around a car by the entryway,” Pususta added.

Another person who lives close to the store, Dora Garza Salazar Rolfzen, said she was shopping there minutes before the shooting.  

“We could have been shopping together, we could have crossed each other’s path,” Garza Salazar Rolfzen said about the suspect.

“I came here to do some shopping for my neighbor and I dropped her stuff off at her house [then] I pulled into my driveway and I hear gunfire, like five or six shots,” Garza Salazar Rolfzen said.

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