Overview

• Officers were called to McKinley Street near The Strand in North Ward at about 9.50 am Saturday after reports of a man carrying a machete and a knife.
• Police say the suspect advanced toward officers with the weapons, prompting them to open fire and fatally wound him.
• Paramedics treated the man at the scene for critical chest, abdomen and leg injuries before he was declared dead.
• No police officers or members of the public were injured during the confrontation.
• The Ethical Standards Command has secured the crime scene and initiated a use-of-force investigation under Crime and Corruption Commission oversight.