Two Humboldt County sheriff's deputies were involved in the fatal shooting of a suspect in a marijuana grow-op search on Wednesday. The officers were put on "administrative leave" as punishment, here's a snip:

The sheriff's department says the person who was killed confronted the deputies with a shotgun on land owned by the Pacific Lumber Company near Larabee Valley, about 30 miles east of Fortuna. One of the deputies fired his service weapon, striking the suspect.

This kind of thing happens a lot more than you'd think, we had police shoot and kill a teenager in my town this summer. The details on this story are not very clear, he did have a shotgun to protect his crop, but was he threatening the officers in any way?