Officers involved in fatal shooting identified

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Officials are releasing the names of the two police officers involved in the fatal Town of Geneva shooting of a 26-year-old town of Geneva man.  Authorities say Town of Geneva police officers Jason Sweeney and Eric Anderson shot and killed Eric C. Olsen Friday evening.  Anderson and Sweeney are 12-year veterans of the police department.  They're both on standard paid administrative leave pending an investigation into the shooting.  Authorities say Olsen charged at the officers with a knife after he'd broken into a neighbor's home Friday evening with an ax.  The Walworth County Sheriff's Office and the state Division of Criminal Investigation are investigating the shooting as is procedure.