Police had been referred to as to a medical centre on Junction Avenue in Nowra after studies a 34-year-old affected person had drawn a gun about 1pm.
Assistant Commissioner Peter Cotter mentioned the person, who was a daily on the medical centre, was speaking with a physician when he turned “extraordinarily agitated” and spoke of “alarming issues”.
“Throughout that dialog, unprovoked, he produced a firearm,” Cotter mentioned.
Medical workers referred to as police, who arrived shortly after and negotiations occurred for practically two hours.
Native hairdresser Holly Spence instructed 9news she noticed a number of individuals contained in the medical centre escape.
“Inside the first half-an-hour, hour, of him being in there we did see a cluster of employees or sufferers come working out,” she mentioned.
“However we weren’t positive if it was all of them directly or if there have been nonetheless some caught in there.
“Not lengthy after, (police) got here we heard a minimum of six gunshots all of sudden.”
Throughout negotiations, the person emerged from the medical centre however refused to give up to police.
He picked up a ballistic defend dropped by an officer whereas waving his gun, prompting police to fireplace a number of photographs.
Footage captured from a enterprise reverse the centre, confirmed various police swarming the doorway of the constructing.
“Oh my God, they shot him!” a lady might be heard saying within the background.
Cotter mentioned police had been holding a ballistic defend and had dropped it earlier than the man picked it up and continued to brandish the gun and “increase it within the air and at police”.
“Various photographs had been fired by police,” Cotter mentioned.
“He was hit a number of instances.”
The person died on the scene regardless of being handled by paramedics.
Cotter mentioned the Murder Squad would examine the circumstances of the incident, the historical past of the person and the actions of police.
”He doesn’t have a major prison historical past, he was identified to police by medical episodes and extra just lately by psychological medical episodes,” he mentioned.
A essential incident investigation can be underway and that shall be independently reviewed.
