Two on-duty Cleveland police officers shot and killed a man who was waving a gun in public and firing the weapon, according to police. Police got a call from two off-duty officers and citizens around 3:30 p.m. for a man shooting a gun at East 12th Street and Superior Avenue. Jeff Follmer, the President of the C.P.P.A. (the police patrolman’s union) said the officers approached the suspect and told him to put the gun down, which he complied with, but he then picked the gun back up and started shooting at officers; the officers returned fire, striking the man. Chief Calvin Williams said his officers responded and tried to end things peacefully, but the man with the gun opened fire. “At this point shots were exchanged and the male went down. He is deceased. I don’t know the suspect at all in this incident. We’ll hopefully find out later the frame of mind of this person and why the person would do what they did. But our officers acted the way they should and tried to get this person to surrender and put the down, that’s when the person fired at them and they had to protect themselves,” Williams said. It’s unclear how many shots were actually fired by the suspect and by police, but 19 News counted at least 79 evidence markers which includes not just bullet casing but all evidence at the scene that will become part of the investigation. “This male we actually tracked a little bit east on Superior, probably back to East 30th Street. With some work from the Real Time Camera Center we could see he actually had the weapon, had it out. We don’t know if he actually fired it that far back, but we do know he actually had that weapon, had it out and was pointing it at vehicles that were passing by. Pointing up in the air and different things while he walked west bound on Superior Avenue,” Williams said. No officers were injured.