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Police fatally shoot man in Indianapolis after pursuit as part of operation to get guns off streets

Police fatally shot an armed man Tuesday during a confrontation on Indianapolis' north side, authorities said.

State Police and Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers stopped the man around 4:40 p.m. and opened fire on him when he stepped out of a vehicle with a gun, state police Sgt. John Perrine said.

Two Indianapolis police officers and one state trooper fired their weapons, Perrine said. None of them were injured.

They will be placed on administrative duties while the shooting is investigated, authorities said.

Indiana State Police identified the man as Darmon Graves Jr., 42, who Perrine said was wanted on a felony warrant.

Police recovered a handgun at the scene. It was not clear whether Graves fired a weapon.

The officers had been pursuing Graves as part of an operation of the Indiana Crime Guns Task Force, a joint effort among central Indiana law enforcement agencies to remove weapons from the streets, Perrine said.

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