A plain­clothes po­lice of­fi­cer shot and killed a man in Ch­agua­nas on Sat­ur­day morn­ing, af­ter the man al­leged­ly pulled out a gun to shoot an­oth­er man dur­ing an ar­gu­ment on a PH taxi stand.

Ac­cord­ing to ini­tial re­ports, the in­ci­dent took place at the Ed­in­burgh 500 taxi stand along An­drew Street some­time af­ter 10 am. The dead man has been iden­ti­fied as David Sim­mons, al­so known as Bruno.

De­tails are sketchy but po­lice said eye­wit­ness­es saw a man walk up to Sim­mons and an ar­gu­ment start­ed. Po­lice said Sim­mons al­leged­ly pulled out a firearm and threat­ened to shoot the oth­er man. A plain­clothes of­fi­cer who was near­by called on Sim­mons to drop the weapon but he re­fused and al­leged­ly point­ed the gun in the of­fi­cer's di­rec­tion. The of­fi­cer fired at Sim­mons, hit­ting him in the body. Sim­mons was tak­en to the Ch­agua­nas Health Fa­cil­i­ty where he lat­er died.

Po­lice said Sim­mons was well known to them.

Guardian Me­dia will up­date this sto­ry as more in­for­ma­tion comes to hand.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.