A Texas State Trooper shot and killed an armed person during a response to a mental health crisis Saturday afternoon, state law enforcement officials said.

Officer-involved shooting What we know: The shooting happened around 3:30 p.m. in the 11000 block of Ingram Street in Brownsboro, about 20 miles west of Tyler, where a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper had arrived to assist local officers with a reported suicidal individual.

According to DPS officials, the trooper encountered the person holding a firearm and ordered them to drop the weapon.