A man who shot and injured two police officers in Miami early Thursday before barricading for hours inside a house was later found dead, the city’s police chief said, either from a self-inflicted gunshot wound or from an exchange of gunfire with officers outside.

Chief Manuel A. Morales of the Miami Police Department said an investigation would aim to determine exactly how the man, whom he identified as Mason Triana, 27, had died.

The events leading up to the shootings and standoff began just before 7 a.m., when police received a call about an abandoned vehicle at an intersection in the Allapattah neighborhood of Miami.

Two officers were dispatched to a location for which they had received a gunfire detection notification and saw a vehicle that was riddled with bullet holes, Morales sai

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