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Police shoot armed man in Falmouth
By Nicole Fleming and Samantha J. Gross
Globe Correspondents

FALMOUTH — The district attorney and police continued their investigation Saturday morning at the residence where an officer-involved shooting left a male with a non-life-threatening hip injury Friday night, police said.

He was shot by officers after he barricaded himself with a firearm in a residence at 402 Teaticket Highway, which neighbors said was a sober house where three or four men live.

Police went to the residence around 8 p.m. Friday after reports that an intoxicated male had made multiple suicide threats, police said in a statement. Witnesses told officers that they saw the male hold a pistol to his head.

Officers evacuated neighbors, shut down a portion of the highway, and called the male on his cellphone, police said, but he continued making suicidal statements and refused to leave the residence.

As police entered the residence, the male pointed a handgun at officers, police said. He was shot by police soon after. He was taken to Falmouth Hospital, then transferred to a Boston hospital for injuries that were not life-threatening, police said.

No officers were harmed, according to the statement.

The Cape and Islands District Attorney said he had been asked to look into the shooting.

“We’ve been asked to review it,’’ Michael D. O’Keefe said.

“We are conducting an investigation.’’

State Police were also asked by Falmouth police to assist the investigation early Saturday morning, State Police spokesman Thomas Ryan said.

“Every time [police] go somewhere or stop someone in a car, their lives are at risk,’’ said Frank Howard, who lives across the street from the shooting scene. He and his wife had just moved there two weeks ago with their 20-month-old son.

Rachel Howard, his wife, said she was reading at home Friday night when she thought she heard a gunshot.

They were glad to hear that the injuries to the individual were not critical.

“It takes a lot of skill to [disarm someone without] shooting center mass,’’ Frank Howard said.

The male, who had been previously charged with a violent crime, according to Falmouth police, is being charged with assault and unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition.

Jean Burnett, who lives across the street from where the shooting occurred, said she was alerted to the scene outside her window when her rescue dog, Lucky, began barking.

“He growled, so there was something out there he didn’t like,’’ she said.

Burnett recalled the police had been to the house where the shooting occurred once in the past couple of years, but there had been no serious incidents.

“There’s been no trouble with those people over there,’’ she said. “They haven’t bothered us.’’

Ashish Dutta, a neighbor, returned home from work Friday night to find his street blocked off by police. Law enforcement officers allowed him to return to his house across from the scene but asked him and his mother to keep away from windows and stay toward the back of their house.

“We’re humble Teaticketers,’’ Dutta said.

“We’re not used to seeing things like this.’’

Nicole Fleming can be reached at nicole.fleming@globe.com. Samantha Gross can be reached at samantha.gross @globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @samanthajgross.