Early Tuesday morning an Eaton County Deputy was involved in a shooting.

The deputy was assisting the Michigan State Police in locating a male suspect who stabbed a person at the Quality Dairy Store on Lansing road. The deputy observed the suspect in Delta township driving north and made a traffic stop. Suspect 43 year old Sean Ruis  left his vehicle and violently attack the deputy with a knife. The deputy backed away repeatedly telling Ruis to drop the knive, but he continued his attack and she then acted in self defense.

The Eaton County Sheriff requested the Michigan State Police to conduct an independent investigation of the incident.