Officer kills knife attacker

ATLANTA - An Atlanta police officer shot and killed a man Saturday who was slashing another officer with a knife. <br> <br> Atlanta police said Sgt. R.L. Holder and Officer B.R. Cartwright were responding to a call that a man had cut his mother with a knife. <br> <br> The mother allowed the officers inside the house and they tried to talk with the suspect, Leotis Reese Jr., 48. <br> <br> Reese refused to comply with the officers&#39; commands and got into a physical struggle with the police, they said. <br> <br> Reese slashed Cartwright across the face, police said. <br> <br> When Reese moved to attack Cartwright again, Holder shot him. <br> <br> Holder, a 20-year veteran on the Atlanta police force, was placed on administrative leave while the shooting is investigated.

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