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Man shot dead by armed police in Enfield, north London
Metropolitan Police armed officers killed the 43-year-old on the sixth floor of a tower block after reports of an armed man making threats to kill
Armed police stormed a tower block and shot dead a 43-year-old man after reports he was carrying a weapon and making threats to kill.
Scotland Yard said its officers were called to a 12-storey high-rise, Picardy House, in Enfield, north London, at about 9.30pm on Sunday.
Several neighbours described hearing two "proper loud gunshots" as the man was shot by police outside a sixth floor flat.
A gun was recovered from the scene.
A police spokesman said officers had been told a man was "making threats to kill and in possession of what was believed to be a firearm" at an address in neighbouring Barnet earlier in the evening.
However, he had left the address before officers arrived.
Later, armed officers were called to the tower block in Cedar Road, Enfield, near Lavender Hill cemetery.
Neighbours described seeing around 20 armed officers enter the building before hearing two shots that "sounded like firecrackers".
Residents said the shooting took place outside a flat on the sixth floor, which has been sealed off by police.
Dowan Mustafa, 20, who lives on the floor above with his mother, said he saw armed police officers swarm the building, and later heard two shots being fired.
He said: "I was looking over our balcony and I saw coppers swarming the building. They were armed - around 20 of them.
"The coppers came in and after I heard the shots.
"I heard two gunshots, proper loud gunshots, which woke everyone up.
"They are saying it was a shotgun but we are not too sure.
"Everyone has been evacuated from the sixth floor."
One resident Bob Mallick, 62-year-old lecturer, was at home with his daughter and her boyfriend on the fifth floor.
He said: "I heard these two loud shots. At first I thought they were firecrackers because quite a lot of young people live on this estate.
"Then I heard, I can't remember who shouted it, that they were gunshots. There were police everywhere.
"Eventually police cars, two ambulances and CPR people arrived. I also saw helicopters in the air.
"It soon become clear that something very serious had happened."
He added: "This is a community of working people where everyone looks out for each other.
"There has been some historic problems related to young people in gangs and drugs."
Another resident of the block, who gave his name as Peter, said he heard four shots fired.
“When I first heard the bangs I thought it was fireworks, and didn’t think much about it," he said.
“I couldn’t believe it when I heard there was a police shooting. I know some people said they heard two shots, but I definitely heard four."
The incident has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission, the watchdog which investigates all deaths involving police officers.
The Met Police's Directorate of Professional Standards, which investigates officers' actions and ethics, is also in attendance at the scene.
The Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "Shortly before 11.50pm a white male was shot by police outside the address.
"The man, believed aged in his 40s, was pronounced dead at the scene.
"A non-police firearm has been recovered from the scene."
No other arrests have been made and formal identification of the dead man is yet to take place, added the spokesman.