Suspect killed by police after shooting man, Gastonia PD says

Suspect killed by police after shooting man, Gastonia PD says

Police in Gastonia were involved in a shooting after responding to an incident inside a home on Osceola Street.

Police told Channel 9 that a man shot another man, who was transported to the hospital. The suspect was then shot and killed by police.

Gastonia Police is also working to learn if the shooting was domestic-related or not.

The call was received just after 5 a.m. on Sunday for a man threatening a woman with a gun inside a home.

Channel 9′s Glenn Counts spoke with neighbors who witnessed the incident.

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They said it began with a woman allegedly being threatened and chased by her ex-boyfriend after letting her dog out of her home.

Clinton Bell told Channel 9 that he witnessed the entire thing from his living room window. He said a family friend was the one who called the police.

“[The woman] got right here and he hit her in the head a couple of times. About 3 or 4 times with the gun. They got up and went into the house. The door was shut and she called the police. He come up, the cops come up. They went around to the back … the cop heard shots cause he told his partner ‘shots fired, shots fired.’ They kicked the door open and the cop told the guy ‘drop the gun.’ He didn’t do it. He shot at the officers, officers fired back,” Bell described.

While the woman suffered minor injuries, the condition of the man who was shot by the suspect is unknown at this time.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

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