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BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) -- Additional details trickled out Thursday in the police shooting of a Burlington man during a rural southeast Iowa methamphetamine investigation.
The Iowa Department of Public Safety says 51-year-old Earl Freeman was shot and injured by two officers at about 4 a.m. Wednesday in Wever.
Before the shooting, Freeman allegedly sprayed four of the officers with anhydrous ammonia, a fertilizer used to make methamphetamine.
The four officers were treated and released. Freeman was taken to the University Hospitals in Iowa City. A hospital spokeswoman says Freeman's condition was not available Thursday afternoon.
No charges have been filed.
A Department of Public Safety spokeswoman says one of the officers involved in the shooting has been put on paid leave.
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