Fatal police-involved shooting under investigation in East Vancouver

A fatal police-involved shooting is under investigation in East Vancouver.

A fatal police-involved shooting is under investigation in East Vancouver.

The Vancouver Police Department said it was called to an apartment building near Commercial Drive and East 5th Avenue at about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.

"When patrol officers arrived, there was an interaction that resulted in an exchange of gunfire," the VPD said in a news release the next morning.

Police said the suspect, who was a man in his 40s, died at the scene. An officer was injured and taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Witnesses told CTV News Vancouver they heard the shots ring out.

“I heard sirens and then gunshots going off like bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. So five shots, maybe six,” a witness who didn’t want to be identified told CTV News.

He looked outside his window and saw heavily armed police swarming the home next door.