Police say they shot and killed a man near the police station in Rumford, Maine, on Monday night.
Around 8:21 p.m. Monday, officers from the Rumford Police Department and the Oxford County Sheriff's Office were interviewing a citizen in front of the Rumford police station who was concerned about being followed around town by a vehicle driven by an unknown subject.
As the officers were talking with the citizen, a vehicle matching the description of the suspect vehicle drove up in front of the police station and confronted the officers with a rifle.Shots were fired by two officers, and the man was subsequently taken by ambulance to Rumford Hospital, where he was pronounced dead around 8:45 p.m.
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