EL MIRAGE, AZ (AZFamily) — A suspect is dead after an officer-involved shooting in El Mirage on Wednesday evening.

Officers were called out to a neighborhood in the area of 115th Avenue and Columbine Drive , which is north of Cactus Road, just after 5:30 p.m.

When they arrived, they saw the suspect whom the 911 caller was describing and he was walking down the street.

Police said as they got closer to him, they saw he was carrying what they believed to be a gun. They tried to establish a conversation and that’s when one officer shot the man, police said.

He later died at the scene. No officers were hurt. Investigators didn’t get into the final moments before the shooting.

The officer involved in the shooting has been with the department for two years.

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