Phoenix police detectives are investigating an officer-involved shooting that occurred Thursday night.

A man died at the scene of the shooting after police said he raised a handgun while in the backyard of a home near 79^th Avenue and Mitchell Drive.

Officers responded about 10:20 p.m. Nov. 28 to the vicinity of 83^rd Avenue and McDowell Road after a caller reported following a person who was “harassing someone else and was possibly armed,” according to a Phoenix Police Department release.

The caller provided a description of the vehicle, and authorities found it. Officers attempted to conduct a traffic stop, but the driver sped away.

With the assistance of the department’s air support unit, the vehicle was tracked to the area of 79^th Avenue and Mitchell Drive, where the driver left the car and ran into the backyard of a nearby home, police said.

Officers arrived and heard what they believed to be a gunshot coming from the yard, according to the release.

“As containment was being set up, an officer who had deployed with his rifle, saw a man matching the description given out for the driver of the vehicle that had failed to yield,” the release stated.

“This man was seen with a handgun in his hand and raised it up. This is when the officer-involved shooting occurred.”

The man suffered at least one gunshot wound and did not survive his injuries, police said, adding a firearm was found at the scene.

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