The Morgan County Sheriff’s Office is no longer maintaining that a suspect killed by deputies fired at the officers after the investigation revealed that the man was holding a fake gun when he was fatally shot.

The suspect, identified Tuesday by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s State Bureau of Investigation as 41-year-old Decatur resident Drew Patterson Banks, was shot dead by deputies following a vehicle chase.

Priceville officers tried to conduct a traffic stop on the vehicle Banks was driving, which was reported stolen, according to the SBI.

The driver refused to stop and a chase ensued with Morgan County sheriff’s deputies assisting the Priceville officers.

The pursuit ended at Thompson Road and Byrd Road in Morgan County, when Banks allegedly exited the vehicle “with what appeared to be a handgun,” according to the SBI.

“Upon further investigation, it was determined that the firearm was a full-sized replica of a Sig Sauer 1911 semiautomatic handgun,” the agency said.

Banks was then fatally shot.

No officers were injured.

In a Facebook post, the sheriff’s office initially said Monday that “the subject shot at deputies, who returned fire.”

On Tuesday, the office edited its post to say “the subject pointed a firearm, later determined by ALEA Investigators to be a replica handgun, at Deputies and Officers, who returned fire.”

The post no longer makes any mention of Banks firing at officers.