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Man shot by armed police at Liverpool house | |
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A man has been shot by armed police who entered a house in Liverpool, police investigators have said. | |
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said investigators were at Shellingford Road, Dovecot, after a "non fatal police shooting". | |
Neighbour Craig Chadwick said he saw armed police "move in with all the shooting" after seeing "the fella with a knife to his wife's throat". | |
Merseyside Police said no officers had been injured. | |
The IPCC said that following the shooting, it had "declared an independent investigation". | |
Mr Chadwick said he had heard a police negotiator "trying to calm him down, but he was shaking his head at them". | |
He said the moment armed officers entered the house was "horrible". | |
"They had to throw [smoke] bombs into the house and then an ambulance came about half an hour later." | |
Neighbour Jenni Hurley told BBC Radio Merseyside that when she woke at about 07:30 BST, "there were all police cars in my street". | |
"You could see everything. We could see the riot vans and they started putting the police tape up. | |
"At 08:30, we heard the gunshots then. It was about five or six - it went on for a while." | |
She said she was unsure if the shots had come from inside or outside the house. |