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CHARLOTTE - UPDATES: A large crowd gathered Tuesday night after police said an officer shot an armed man in northeast Charlotte.
The protesters blocked off the road at about 8 p.m.
The officer involved in the deadly shooting is African-American, as well as the man who was shot and killed, a police source said.
1 dead in officer-involved shooting in northeast Charlotte, CMPD says
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Detectives with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department are conducting an investigation of the officer-involved shooting that occurred in the 9600 block of Old Concord Road in the University City Division.
PHOTOS: 1 dead in officer-involved shooting in University City
Officers were at The Village at College Downs Tuesday at about 4 p.m., searching for a suspect who had an outstanding warrant, Police Department officials said in a press release.
Officers saw a vehicle in the apartment complex.
A man, not the suspect police were searching for, exited the vehicle armed with a firearm and got back into the vehicle. Officers then approached the man. The man got back out of the vehicle armed with a firearm and posed an imminent deadly threat to the officers, who shot the man, CMPD says.
The officers immediately requested medical help and began performing CPR, police said.
The man was taken to Carolinas Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
The identity of the dead man and the officer involved will be released pending family notification.
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The brother of the man police shot and killed tells me he was holding a book and waiting for his son to be dropped off from school
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6:12 PM - 20 Sep 2016
Detectives recovered the firearm the man had been holding at the time of the shooting at the scene.
The investigation is ongoing.
Family members of the man shot to death said he did not have a gun, but instead had a book in his hand and was waiting for his son to be dropped off from school.