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TORONTO — A Toronto Police officer is lucky to be alive after a shootout in Scarborough that left a civilian dead early Thursday.

An off-duty officer called 911 about a man with a gun inside a pub at a commercial plaza near Warden Ave. and Hymus Rd., north of St. Clair Ave., shortly after midnight, Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit says.

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Toronto Police officers arrived and found the man in a white Mercedes outside a pub.

A source tells the Sun that when police arrived, the man rolled up his heavily tinted window. As officers approached, the man shot through the window, hitting one of them in the chest, the source said.

Police then fired at the man, hitting him numerous times, according to the source.

The SIU confirmed all three officers fired at the man in the vehicle. The man, a 36-year-old from Scarborough, was taken to hospital, where he died at 12:41 a.m.

The source said the man, whose name was not immediately released, was well-known to police.