ST..JOHNS (CBC) - A Fredericton man in a wheelchair was shot and killed by police last Friday outside a motel in Texas.

Andrew Reid, 37, was shot by a police officer in the small west Texas city of Fort Stockton where he was staying. The Texas Rangers state police have been brought in to investigate.

The Pecos County Police Department received a call that said a man was involved in a disturbance in the motel's parking lot.

"We got a call from the motel advising that he was out in the parking lot in his wheelchair screaming and hollering and acting crazy and everything," said Sheriff Cliff Harris.

Harris said two officers arrived on scene and tried to calm him down.

However, the officers decided that Reid needed to be arrested and put in jail for creating a "big disturbance."

At that point a scuffle broke out between Reid and the police officers.

"He finally got the other officer's gun again, stuck it in his belly. When the other officer got her gun and fired two shots and fatally wounded him," Harris said.

Reid had been living Fort Stockton, which has a population of roughly 8,000.

Reid had been arrested the day before the fatal shooting, but he had been released to a family friend after having a mental health evaluation.

The original incident occurred while police were cleaning up an accident scene on Thursday.

Harris said Reid drove by in his wheelchair and accosted the officers.

"He was very abusive to the officers. He started weaving in and out of traffic," he said.

"At one point he almost ran over the fire chief."