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Police have shot dead a man in north London after he made “threats to kill”, Scotland Yard has said. | |
The man, described as white and in his 40s, was killed by police outside an address in Cedar Road, Enfield, at 11.50pm on Sunday. | |
He was pronounced dead at the scene and officers later retrieved a “non-police” firearm from the address, the Metropolitan police said in a statement. No one else was injured and no arrests had been made. | |
The shooting will be referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) for investigation. | |
Earlier in the evening, police had been called to an address in Barnet, north London, after receiving reports that a man had a gun and was making death threats. When they arrived just after 9.30pm the man had left the property. | |
Officers then went to the house in Enfield, where the man was shot. | |
A police spokesman said: “The Directorate of Professional Standards is in attendance at the scene. As a matter of routine, the incident has been referred to the IPCC for investigation.” | |
It is the first fatal shooting by British police this year. In September 2014 a man was killed by police in Islington after threatening a woman with a knife. That was the first shooting in the capital since the killing of Mark Duggan in Tottenham, which sparked the 2011 riots. |