The shooting happened after a Granite County sheriff's deputy and a state game warden responded to multiple 911 calls about a disturbance at the Sunshine Station near Philipsburg at around 7 p.m. on Thursday, Granite County Sheriff Scott Dunkerson said in a press release. They saw the man ramming his vehicle into other vehicles and, after failed efforts to stop him, he then reportedly hit another citizen's vehicle and the deputy's vehicle, the sheriff said. The deputy then fired "because of the imminent danger of the situation", Dunkerson said. He noted that the man's actions had also endangered pedestrians.