A Durham Police Department officer shot a man once in the chest near East Campus at about 3:40 p.m. Wednesday.
The man was taken to Duke University Hospital for treatment, according to a DPD statement. His name and condition were not immediately available.
An officer on the scene said DPD received a call around 3 p.m. about a suicidal male in the left half of a duplex located at 1306 W. Chapel Hill St., approximately eight-tenths of a mile from East Campus.
According to the statement, officers responding to the call found a man who had a shotgun under his chin and refused to drop the weapon. The man entered his apartment and refused to come out.
DPD then dispatched its Hostage Negotiation and Selective Enforcement teams to negotiate with the man. He later emerged from the apartment and pointed a gun at officers. One officer fired a shot, hitting him in the chest, the statement said.
The State Bureau of Investigation and DPD's Professional Standards Division will investigate the shooting in accordance with standard procedure for shootings involving officers, according to the statement.
Several neighbors said they heard two or three shots but had not seen the shooting. One man said he heard a shot and saw multiple police vehicles arrive soon afterward. Other bystanders said they had heard only two shots total.
One onlooker said he saw a shirtless man, whose chest was covered in blood, being removed on a stretcher after an ambulance arrived on the scene.
Officers initially blocked off two houses, including the house where the incident occurred, at the corner of Chapel Hill and Brewster streets. As bystanders gathered, police extended their blockade to cover the full block of Chapel Hill Street from Maplewood Avenue to Brewster Street.
In addition to 10 to 15 marked and unmarked police cars, DPD's Mobile Substation was parked near the house, and its armored rescue vehicle was also on the scene. The house is slightly more than a half mile from DPD's Chapel Hill Street headquarters.
Neighbors said the man lived alone, adding that they believed two Duke students reside in the other half of the duplex. It was not immediately possible to verify the identity of the residents.
DPD Public Information Officer Kammie Michael was not available for comment.
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