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Calgary police opened fire into a vehicle, critically wounding and ultimately killing a suspect in the middle of a crowded strip mall parking lot Tuesday afternoon.

A stolen blue pickup truck sat in the middle of a cluster of vehicles, partially out of a strip mall parking stall in the 5000 block of 16 Ave. N.W. around 4 p.m., bullet damage to its windows visible.

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Officers released few details immediately following the shooting but confirmed an altercation with police ended in gunfire.

The man shot by an officer was taken to hospital in critical condition, where he later died.

A second individual — uninjured — was taken into police custody, where he remains, though charges had not been laid as of Tuesday night.

Stephen Gibson was just getting into the parking lot when the incident unfolded in front of him.

“I was getting my truck parked to do a grocery run here and looked up, and the blue Dodge pickup that we see over my shoulder came in at an extremely high rate of speed, immediately followed by police officers, both in (unmarked) cars and in (marked) cars,” Gibson said.