Overview
- Officers were dispatched to the intersection of Wilkens and South Caton avenues after multiple callers reported a suicidal person armed with a gun.
- Police say the man began shooting at responding officers as they arrived at the scene.
- One officer stopped and gave commands to get on the ground, but the man kept firing, according to Deputy Commissioner Kevin Jones.
- Two officers returned fire and struck the man, who was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.
- Jones briefed reporters at a media staging area and said the investigation is ongoing, while the city police union said its leaders and attorneys were responding to assist the officers.