EAGLE RIVER - The Vilas County Sheriff's Department will handle the Hurley shooting investigation.

Friday morning a SWAT team shot and killed 85-year-old Leo J. Driscoll at Southgate Village Apartments.

Authorities say Driscoll made threatening comments to his apartment manager and law enforcement.

Sheriff Frank Tomlanovich says his department will treat this like any other criminal investigation.

"What we're doing is going in and fact-finding," Tomlanovich says. "We need to learn and determine as much of the information and facts that we possibly can. Then compile all that data and reduce it to report form."

Police say Driscoll threatened his apartment manager with a handgun, and then retreated to his apartment.

Driscoll's girlfriend warned police he had multiple firearms.

Sheriff Tomlanovich says there are specific guidelines when using deadly force.

"The only time an officer can use is if they feel, in their own mind, that they're in danger of death or great bodily harm," Tomlanovich says. "Or a citizen is in similar danger. Every officer in this state knows it is a last resort."

Two Hurley police officers and several others on the SWAT team are on administrative leave while the incident is investigated.

Tomlanovich says in Vilas County if an officer shoots and kills someone, they’re placed on administrative leave.

Story By: Matt Doyle