From the Indianapolis Star with no details on the weapon:
http://www.indystar.com/print/articles/avon16.html
Man killed by officer responding to fracas
40-year-old Avon man was shot after ignoring police order to put down his gun, authorities say.
Staff Report
July 16, 2001
An Avon policeman, called to a disturbance in which gunshots reportedly had been fired late Saturday, fatally shot a man who came to the door with a gun, officials said.
The victim was identified as Robert E. Franklin Jr., 40, who was living at the Hendricks County residence with an unidentified female companion. Franklin died at the scene.
Hendricks County Deputy Coroner Steve Matthews said an autopsy showed Franklin died of a gunshot wound to the chest. Matthews said Franklin was shot more than once. The shots were believed to be fired by Patrolman Andrew Manek.
Manek, 31, was put on administrative leave pending an internal investigation.
Manek joined the Avon force in June 1997 after working for Borders Book Distribution Warehouse and previously as a security officer for Lafayette Square Mall.
It was the first police shooting since Avon was incorporated as a town in 1995.
The preliminary investigation indicated that Franklin did not fire at police. Toxicology tests also are pending.
Matthews said the couple were parents of an 11-year-old daughter, who was not home at the time of the shooting.
The woman was treated for minor injuries at Hendricks Community Hospital, said Sheriff's Detective Roger Call. He said police do not know what triggered the incident. But deputies have responded to previous reports of disturbances at the house.
Two other men, at least one of them a brother of Franklin, were in the house during the incident, the coroner said.
A woman who answered the telephone at Franklin's parents' home in Indianapolis confirmed he has family there, but she declined any comment.
Avon police and the Hendricks County Sheriff's Department each dispatched a car at 10:52 p.m., in response to calls of a disturbance at 529 S. County Road 625 East. The phone calls came from an adjacent subdivision in Avon, but the house where the disturbance was reported is outside town limits.
While a patrol car from each department was on the way, neighbors called again to report they heard shots fired in the house. Each department then dispatched an additional officer.
Manek and a sheriff's deputy arrived first, talked to the people who had called and went to the house. They saw Franklin standing in a sliding glass doorway, holding a handgun, according to investigators' accounts.
"They ordered him to put the gun down and to get on the ground," said Avon Police Lt. Rob Paris. But apparently Franklin did neither.
"The officer fired several shots. We don't know yet how many," he said.