Man killed at Vegas hospital had guard's stun gun

Police Capt. Kelly McMahill briefs the media on an officer-involved shooting at University Medical Center on Monday, Sept. 25, 2017, in Las Vegas. Authorities said a man in police custody inside the hospital was fatally shot by an officer while the man was pointing a stun gun. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)
Police Capt. Kelly McMahill briefs the media on an officer-involved shooting at University Medical Center on Monday, Sept. 25, 2017, in Las Vegas. Authorities said a man in police custody inside the hospital was fatally shot by an officer while the man was pointing a stun gun. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A man in police custody in a Las Vegas hospital emergency room was shot and killed by an officer early Monday after the man took a stun gun from a jail guard's bag left alone with him in a room and pointed it at a hospital security guard and a nurse, officials said.

The man had been arrested on a felony arrest warrant and was taken to University Medical Center because he was too intoxicated after his arrest to be kept in jail, Las Vegas police Capt. Kelly McMahill said.

The 4:15 a.m. shooting happened when a hospital security officer and a nurse entered the small room and the suspect pointed the stun gun at the officer, McMahill said.

The security officer left the room to get help and found a police officer who went into the room and saw the man pointing the stun gun at the nurse. The officer fired once as the suspect was turning toward him, McMahill said.

McMahill said security video reviewed by investigators showed the suspect taking the stun gun from the guard's bag. She did not say whether the security officer was armed when he entered the room.

The man was declared dead shortly after the shooting. Police did not identify him, the officer, the jail guard, the security officer or the nurse.

The man had been arrested shortly before 11 p.m. Sunday on the warrant on an unspecified charge after he allegedly threatened suicide, said he had a gun and was "going to blast it out with cops," McMahill said.