AKRON, Ohio -- Akron police fatally shot a 49-year-old man who had shot and killed his wife early Saturday, according to the Summit County Medical Examiner's Office.

The police-involved shooting happened about 4 a.m. on Carey Road in the city's Kenmore neighborhood, according to police.

Neither the man nor the woman has been identified. The man suffers from bi-polar disorder and depression, according to police.

The man fatally shot his wife and was later fatally shot by Akron police officers who were searching for him, according to Akron police detectives and the medical examiner's office.

The incident began about 3:30 a.m. Saturday, police said. A woman called 911 and said her brother-in-law woke her up and told her he shot his wife in the basement of the home in the 1300 block of Carey Avenue.

The woman and another family member ran to a neighbor's home and called police.

The man threatened to kill himself, other family members and police officers, Akron police said.

A SWAT team surround the home and eventually found the 45-year-old woman dead of a gunshot wound in camper outside the home, police said.

Police officers scoured the neighborhood. The man about 6 a.m. forced his way through the enclosed front porch door to a home in the 1300 block of Fawler Avenue, police said.

He knocked on the door and asked to use their phone, but ran off when the resident called 911, police said.

About a half-hour later, the man flagged down a 40-year-old man dropping off a friend on Swinehart Avenue. The man asked for a ride to a station on Wooster Road.

When he got to the gas station, he pulled out a gun, jumped into his wife's 2002 Hyundai Sonata and sped off on East Avenue, police said.

He drove to his brother's home in the 1100 block of McIntosh Avenue. A relative called police and told police officers he was holding a gun to his head, police said. Again, the man ran off before police arrived.

The man then broke into a home in the 1100 block of Kohler Avenue. A man who lived at the home chased him out of the home with a shotgun, police said.

As the man walked out of the home, Akron police pulled up. The man, still clutching the handgun, ran from the officers.

The officers opened fire, killing him on Kohler Avenue and 25th Street Southwest, police said. Officers recovered the handgun for evidence, police said.

The man was taken to Akron General, where he died about 12:30 p.m.

The officers who fired the shots-- a 15-year veteran and two-and-a-half-year veteran-- are on paid leave while the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation investigates the shooting.

It's the second police-involved shooting in Akron in six hours.

The first happened about 9 p.m. in the 700 block of Baird Street. In that case, a 30-year-old intoxicated man with a gun banged on the door and windows to a home.

He demanded to be let into the home and threatened to shoot through the door, police said.

Officers arrived and ordered the man to the ground. Two officers-- one who has been a police officer for four-and-a-half years and another for less than a year--fired shots, hitting the man. He was taken to Akron City Hospital, where he was in critical but stable condition, police said.

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