GUARDIAN ME­DIA NEWS­ROOM

A man was shot and killed at the Char­lieville Ser­vice Sta­tion, ear­ly this morn­ing.

Of­fi­cers re­spond­ing to a re­port of an on­go­ing rob­bery at the sta­tion around 2 am, en­coun­tered an armed man there.

The sus­pect, whose iden­ti­ty re­mains un­known, re­port­ed­ly fired sev­er­al shots at the of­fi­cers, who re­turned fire.

In an at­tempt to es­cape, he fled across the high­way.

Po­lice of­fi­cers who were out on pa­trol in­ter­cept­ed him.

An ex­change of gun­fire al­leged­ly en­sued, end­ing in the death of the sus­pect.

Po­lice say they re­cov­ered a firearm and the stolen items at the scene.