An armed man, and father of two, has been shot dead by police during a terrifying ordeal in Tenterfield in the NSW's north. WesternWilson9 9News MORE:
A neighbour claimed Selby waved a weapon out the front of his family home and threatened his wife, Cindy, inside.9News understands Cindy drove to the police station with their two children while neighbours called police.NSW ambulance paramedics tried to save him but he died at the scene.A conflict out the front of Tenterfield Police Station led a police officer to shoot and kill an armed man.
"Police don't go to work at any point in their careers thinking they will use their firearm at any point… if someone points a firearm at them they need to defend themselves."Egginton said the man's family were devastated by the entire situation. "We are providing them with what support we can to help them understand the process we need to go through to give them some answers in terms of how this came about," he said.
" very confronting for our police, very confronting for those in the community who may have seen or heard what went on too, so we are trying to do our best to support everybody involved in this."He said police had limited interactions with the man in the past. Police will conduct a critical incident investigation on the circumstances surrounding the incident, including the discharge of a police firearm.to receive our daily newsletters and breaking news alerts, sent straight to your inbox.
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