PEORIA ( 25News Now ) - An officer-involved shooting at the St. Louis Lambert International Airport in Missouri early Friday morning left a Peoria man dead after police said he refused to drop a knife.

On Monday, officers identified the man as 31-year-old Darius Kennedy, who last lived in Peoria on West Trewyn Avenue.

According to officers, at about 1 a.m. Friday, police were doing routine security checks at Terminal 1 when they found Kennedy, who officers said was carrying a knife. When officers asked him to drop the knife, Kennedy refused.

That prompted one officer to use a taser, but it did not stop Kennedy, and officers said he continued moving toward police. Another officer then pulled out his firearm and shot him.

Kennedy was pronounced dead in the airport terminal.

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