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A 22-year-old man was fa­tal­ly shot by po­lice of­fi­cers dur­ing an armed con­fronta­tion ear­ly Sun­day morn­ing in Mal­ick, fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to a re­port­ed shoot­ing in San Juan hours ear­li­er.

Ac­cord­ing to an of­fi­cial po­lice re­port, around 2:50 a.m. on Sun­day, of­fi­cers of the North­ern Di­vi­sion were re­turn­ing from mo­bile pa­trol when they re­ceived in­for­ma­tion about sus­pects linked to a shoot­ing that oc­curred at Thomas Street, Sun­shine Av­enue, San Juan around 12:45 a.m. The sus­pects were re­port­ed­ly at a "Zess" par­ty in the vicin­i­ty of Flor­cencia Lane, Shende Street, Up­per 6th Av­enue, Mal­ick.

Up­on ar­rival at the lo­ca­tion, of­fi­cers ob­served sev­er­al in­di­vid­u­als stand­ing along Flor­cencia Lane who quick­ly fled in­to near­by bush­es. Of­fi­cers pur­sued on foot, while oth­ers moved to­ward a bas­ket­ball court in an at­tempt to cor­don the area.