BREAKING: Armed officers shot the man in the secure car park of a police station
A man with a knife has died after being shot by armed officers outside a police station in Derby.
Eyewitness Mark Baxter said he heard six gunshots and saw a police officer with a gun standing over a man on the ground. There has been a steady stream of plain-clothed officers arriving on scene, and a forensics tent has been set up across the road from the police station while investigations continue.Another eyewitness Paul Milner, who works on Ascot Drive, also said he heard six gunshots during his break.
Jack Tymon, BBC Radio Derby's reporter at the scene, said the police cordon stretched from the top of Ascot Drive near the joint police and fire station to the junction with Wetherby Road.
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