Police in Taree have fatally shot a 35-year-old armed man outside of a hospital

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NSW Police have confirmed officers fatally shot a 35-year-old man armed with a revolver outside a hospital on the state’s mid north coast after first giving numerous warnings and using a taser.

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00:00A critical incident investigation is underway after the man was fatally shot by police at

00:08the car park of the Manning Base Hospital, just behind me here at Taree.

00:14Police had earlier been called to a home at Wingham, which is just west of Taree, to do

00:19a welfare check on the man, who was known to police after reports shots had been fired

00:24in the air.

00:26Police say a woman then drove the man to the Manning Base Hospital.

00:30Police were alerted and four officers subsequently engaged with the man at the hospital car

00:35park.

00:36One officer discharged a taser, while three others discharged firearms.

00:41We're still investigating as to whether he actually fired any shots at the police at

00:46that location, but he certainly pointed the firearm at them.

00:49They called on him numerous times to drop that firearm.

00:53They deployed a taser and then eventually shot him.

00:57Police treated the man with first aid at the scene before ambulance paramedics arrived.

01:02The man later died in the Manning Hospital.

01:06An investigation is underway and there will also be an independent review.

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