MATHEWS, La. — A southeast Louisiana sheriff’s deputy shot and wounded a man who was pointing a rifle at him late Sunday, the sheriff said early Monday.

Louisiana State Police are investigating the shooting by a Lafourche Parish deputy, as is standard for shootings involving local departments.

Deputies were told that a man with a rifle was creating a disturbance at a home in Lockport, Sheriff Craig Webre said in a news release.

While they were on their way, he said, they were told he had left in a truck.

When deputies tried to stop the truck in nearby Mathews, the man drove on a short distance, then stopped and began running away, carrying a rifle. Webre said that when the deputy ordered him to stop, the man turned and raised the rifle.

The deputy fired, hitting the man’s arm, Webre said.

Nobody else was wounded.