St. Paul police are investigating a fatal officer-involved shooting in the city’s West Seventh neighborhood.

A woman at the scene identified the dead man as Phil Quinn, 30, and said he was shot and killed Thursday night by a police officer.

St. Paul police said late Thursday that officers were called to a home in the 600 block of Canton Street about 6 p.m. on a report of a suicidal man and that shots were fired and the man was hit. He was taken to Regions Hospital in St. Paul, where he was pronounced dead.

St. Paul police spokesman Steve Linders said officers were called to the home earlier in the day, but declined to elaborate. He declined to release additional details about the shooting.

“We’re trying to piece this together,” he said.

The woman, who identified herself as the mother of Quinn’s girlfriend, told the Pioneer Press that Quinn was schizophrenic and that he had just received mental health treatment at St. Joseph’s Hospital in St. Paul.

“They let him out two days ago,” said the woman, who did not want to be named for this report.

She said Quinn had stabbed himself several times earlier Thursday and was running around the neighborhood.

Police looked for “Phil” earlier because of mental health concerns, according to police scanner audio posted by the website MN Police Clips.

The man was also wanted for questioning in an alleged burglary earlier in the day, the audio said.

Dispatch relayed to officers that Quinn’s mother told dispatch her son had a screwdriver in his hand and had threatened to stab his girlfriend earlier in the day.

When officers arrived, they saw him standing in the doorway of a garage.

“I can’t see if he’s holding anything at this point,” the audio said.

A short time later, an officer states the man has left the garage and was walking by the side of the house.

An officer is heard yelling, “Shots fired! Shots fired! Shots fired!”

Quinn’s girlfriend’s mother said that at one point, “he lunged at the officer and, of course, they shot him.”

She said that Quinn lived in the Canton Street home with her daughter and that the couple had their first child in June.

“He was a really good guy,” she said. “Yes, he’s had his trouble in the past.”

Leah Larson, who lives two doors down from Quinn and his girlfriend, said she had heard police were looking for him earlier in the day.

While cooking for her two children, Larson heard several shots fired.

“I didn’t know him,” she said. “We just moved here three months ago.”

Quinn was civilly committed as mentally ill in 2012 and, after he was discharged from commitment, was sent to prison that year, according to court records. He had been convicted of a firearm violation as a felon.

Quinn left prison in March on supervised release. He remained under supervision as of Thursday, according to a Minnesota Corrections Department record.

In 2011, the State Patrol reported that Quinn was arrested at gunpoint after a high-speed chase that stretched nearly 30 miles and reached more than 100 mph. He was driving a car that had been stolen from Pine City; the pursuit began near North Branch and ended in Lino Lakes. He was convicted of motor vehicle theft in that case.

Thursday’s incident was the third time St. Paul officers fatally shot an individual this year.

A grand jury determined officers were justified when they shot Marcus Golden in January, after police said he nearly struck an officer with his vehicle.

The March shooting of Justin Tolkinen remains under investigation. Police had been in a standoff with Tolkinen, who was wearing an armored vest and carrying a rifle when officers arrived.

The officers involved in Thursday night’s shooting will be put on three-day administrative leave, which is the department’s policy in such cases.

Mara H. Gottfried contributed to this report.

Nick Ferraro can be reached at 651-228-2173. Follow him at twitter.com/NFerraroPiPress.