An ambulance arrives after police killed a man in a shooting at an apartment in Redding on Tuesday night.

A man was shot and killed Tuesday night by Redding police after they were called to an apartment complex for a reported shooting.

Police said someone called 911 before 6 p.m. to report a man firing a gun indiscriminately at an apartment complex in the 200 block of Boulder Creek Drive just north of Lake Boulevard.

Redding police Lt. Pete Brindley said several officers arrived at the apartment and tried to negotiate with him.

The man was not identified by police. Police heard from a witness that the man had been making incoherent statements and yelling about President Obama, Brindley said. He said police weren’t able to negotiate with the man.

Shortly after 6 p.m. numerous gunshots could be heard throughout the neighborhood.

“He came in and out of the apartment, we believe, 10 to 15 times. The last time the subject exited the apartment, there were shots fired,” Brindley said.

He did not know whether the man fired at the officers and couldn’t say whether the man was brandishing a gun when he came out of the apartment the final time.

None of the officers involved was injured, Brindley said. He did not know how many officers were involved or how many shots were fired. Officers earlier shot beanbag rounds at the man, he said.

The officers were placed on administrative leave and the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the case because Redding police officers were involved in the shooting, Brindley said.

Jason Crawford, who lived across from the man in the complex, said he videotaped the shooting from the window in the front room of his apartment.

The video shows officers setting up around the man’s apartment and attempting to communicate with him.

At the end of Crawford’s video the man exits through the front door of the apartment holding a gun in his outstretched hand and then numerous shots rang out.

Kathleen Lunsford said that before police were called, she was confronted by the man outside the apartment where the shooting occurred.

Lunsford, who also lives in the apartment complex, said she was walking by the man’s apartment when he came out, grabbed her and pulled her back inside.

“As soon as he shut the door, he hugged me and he kissed me on the forehead,” Lunsford said. She said she had talked to the man before, but they were not friends.

Then he picked up something that appeared to be a gun, and shot toward someone with a rifle, she said.

“I didn’t know what to do. He shot at a man standing in the door,” Lunsford said. “I was pleading with him, and I was crying and saying ‘you can’t be shooting at people.’”

Lunsford said that at one point the man, who she said was acting erratically, left the apartment and went outside and fired his gun several more times. During this time the man was wearing gray sweatpants and no shirt, she said.

“He was aiming at a guy and then he just got sloppy and he started shooting everywhere,” Lunsford said. She said she was worried about being that close to a shooting with her children nearby.

“I am pretty shaken up because the whole thing makes me pretty nervous,” Lunsford said.

David Rice, who lives up the street on Boulder Creek Drive, said when he heard the shots he came outside.

“We heard the five shots. Everyone was screaming,” Rice said. “He came out screaming ‘Obama! Obama! Obama!’ They (police) told him to come out with your hands up and he kept telling them ‘No, no, no.’”

“He did say he had a gun and he was going to shoot them,” said Dianna Hamm, another resident of Boulder Creek Drive.