Idaho police have been involved in three officer-involved shootings during the past five days and two of the people who were shot have died.

The most recent officer-involved shooting happened early Tuesday morning in Rexburg and occurred on the heels of a Caldwell woman being shot and killed by police in Boise on Sunday and the fatal officer-involved shooting of a man in Idaho Falls on Friday.

The shooting in Rexburg happened around 1 a.m. Tuesday in the area of Second North and Second West and resulted in an adult sustaining a gunshot wound that was not life-threatening but did require hospitalization, the Rexburg Police Department said.

No police officers were injured during the shooting, Rexburg police said.

The age, name and gender of the person who was shot, the name of the Rexburg police officer who shot the person as well as any details regarding the shooting are not being released at this time, the Rexburg Police Department said Tuesday afternoon. 

The Idaho Falls Police Department is the agency investigating the Rexburg shooting as part of the Southeast Idaho Critical Incident Task Force — a multi-law enforcement agency organization that investigates incidents in which police fire their weapons to determine if officers acted properly.

Rexburg Police Chief Shane Turman told the Standard Journal that the Rexburg police officer involved in the shooting has been put on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the task force's investigation. 

"It's just part of our policy that any officer involved be put on administrative leave," Turman told the Standard Journal. "It doesn't mean they did anything wrong. It's just policy."

The Rexburg shooting was the second officer-involved shooting to occur in East Idaho in less than a week.

Idaho Falls police shot and killed a man late Friday night after he had fired a gun in the direction of several police officers, Idaho Falls Police Chief Bryce Johnson told reporters during a Monday press conference. 

The officer-involved shooting in Idaho Falls occurred near the intersection of East 25th Street and South Emerson Avenue, according to Idaho Falls police.

During Monday's press conference, Johnson said six of his officers responded to reports of a suicidal male subject in that area. According to Johnson, the man was in a parked car with a gun threatening to kill himself when police arrived. 

Upon their arrival, the Idaho Falls police officers attempted to de-escalate the situation and calm the man down, but he reportedly was unwilling to exit the car or speak to police, said Johnson.

During the ensuing standoff with the man, Idaho Falls police saw the man’s gun pointed in their direction and heard a gunshot from his car, Johnson said. Three of the officers responded by firing at the man's vehicle, the police chief said.

Johnson said he could not state the man's cause of death or say for sure it was the officers who killed the man. No officers were injured during the shooting.

“I’m certain the officers fired their weapons,” Johnson told the Post Register. He added that it will be up to the Southeast Idaho Critical Incident Task Force to determine the man's official cause of death.

Police performed life-saving measures on the wounded man until paramedics arrived and continued those efforts. The man was then transported via ambulance to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls where he was pronounced dead.

Idaho State Police are leading the critical incident task force's investigation into the Idaho Falls shooting.

Officer body cameras and police vehicle cameras were in use during the shooting and will be turned over to state police as part of the investigation, Johnson said.

The Idaho Falls Police Department is withholding the name of the deceased man as well as the names of the three officers who opened fire until state police investigators have had a chance to interview everyone who witnessed the shooting. All three officers have been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.

“We are fully cooperating in that investigation,” Johnson said.

The officer-involved shooting in Boise occurred on Sunday morning, according to a Monday Boise Police Department news release.

Amber Lea Dewitt, 33, of Caldwell, died of multiple gunshot wounds after she pointed a gun at Boise police officers, Boise police said.

The shooting occurred around 6 a.m. Sunday after officers responded to the 900 Block of Clover Drive near Veterans Memorial Park in Boise for the report of a woman “acting suspiciously and knocking on doors” in the neighborhood, the Boise Police Department news release said.

Three Boise police officers arrived on the scene and found the woman, later identified as Dewitt, seated in a parked vehicle, Boise police said.

“Preliminary evidence indicates that as officers approached the vehicle, the suspect appeared to be reaching and moving things around in the vehicle,” the Boise police news release said. “As the officers spoke with her she continued to fidget and reach for items in the vehicle and inside her purse.”

According to the Boise police news release, Dewitt did not comply with requests from the officers to stop reaching for items inside the car. Dewitt then produced a handgun and pointed it at one of the officers, prompting two of the officers to fatally shoot her, Boise police said.

On Monday Boise police identified the officers who opened fire as D. Hofmann, who has 26 years of law enforcement experience, and M. Canfield, who has been with the Boise Police Department for nine years. Both officers are currently on paid administrative leave per department policy.

No officers were injured during the shooting.

The Meridian Police Department is leading the investigation into the incident. 

According to the Washington Post's online database, police across the country shot and killed 992 people in 2018, almost an average of three fatalities per day. Of the people police fatally shot last year, 13 were Idaho residents, according to the database.

As of Oct. 18 of this year, the database reports there have been 717 fatal officer-involved shootings across the nation, a slight drop from last year but still more than two people per day.

Including the fatal officer-involved shootings in Idaho Falls on Friday night and Boise on Sunday morning, police have shot and killed five people in Idaho so far in 2019.

According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, 131 police officers were killed in the line of duty nationwide from Jan. 1 to Oct. 22 of 2018. Forty-seven of those deaths were firearms-related.

The memorial fund reports that from Jan. 1 to Oct. 22 of this year, 98 police officers were killed in the line of duty nationwide. Thirty-eight of those deaths were firearms-related.

Compared to the same period last year, the number of police officer deaths in the line of duty is down 25 percent nationwide so far in 2019 and officer deaths involving firearms are down 19 percent.

Idaho is one of 20 states where there have been no police officer deaths so far in 2019, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.

The state with the most officer deaths so far this year is Texas with 12.

The Standard Journal and Post Register contributed to this report.