A man with a gun who reportedly threatened to blow up a building in downtown Long Beach was hospitalized and later died when a two-hour standoff with police ended in gunfire near City Hall Wednesday evening, according to authorities.

Video from news helicopters showed SWAT officers moving in with a K-9 and an armored vehicle around 6 p.m. and taking the man into custody in the street just outside the civic center. Police confirmed that more than one officer fired shots and that the man was wounded by the gunfire.

Paramedics took him to a local hospital, where soon after his arrival he was pronounced dead, said Long Beach Police Department spokesman Sgt. Brad Johnson. Prior to the lethal force, he said officers attempted to subdue the man with non-lethal 40 mm rubber batons.

No officers were hurt, Johnson said.

UPDATE: Bomb squad finds no explosives after gunman threatens to blow up Long Beach federal building

Police negotiating with a man on Ocean Boulevard near Chestnut in downtown Long Beach. The man in the white van is believed to be armed and possibly made threats. Long Beach March 7, 2018. Photo by Brittany Murray, Press Telegram/SCNG

Police are negotiating with a man on Ocean Boulevard near Chestnut in downtown Long Beach. The man in the white van is believed to be armed and possibly made threats. Long Beach March 7, 2018. Photo by Brittany Murray, Press Telegram/SCNG

Police are negotiating with a man on Ocean Boulevard near Chestnut in downtown Long Beach. The man in the white van is believed to be armed and possibly made threats. Long Beach March 7, 2018. Photo by Brittany Murray, Press Telegram/SCNG

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Police are negotiating with a man on Ocean Boulevard near Chestnut in downtown Long Beach. The man in the white van is believed to be armed and possibly made threats. Long Beach March 7, 2018. Photo by Brittany Murray, Press Telegram/SCNG

Police negotiate with a man on Ocean Boulevard near Chestnut in downtown Long Beach Wednesday, March 7, before an officer-involved shooting occured. The man in the white van was believed to be armed and possibly made threats. Photo by Brittany Murray, Press Telegram/SCNG



Police negotiate with a man on Ocean Boulevard near Chestnut in downtown Long Beach Wednesday, March 7, before an officer-involved shooting occured. The man in the white van was believed to be armed and possibly made threats. Photo by Brittany Murray, Press Telegram/SCNG

The van is unoccupied after police fired at the man they were are negotiating with on Ocean Boulevard near Chestnut in downtown Long Beach. The man in the white van is believed to be armed and possibly made threats. Long Beach March 7, 2018. Photo by Brittany Murray, Press Telegram/SCNG

Police said this is the handgun the man had in his possession during a standoff on Ocean Boulevard on Wednesday. (Photo courtesy of Long Beach Police Department)

The standoff started around 4 p.m. after a woman contacted police saying her husband was armed with a gun and threatening to “blow up the federal building” in downtown, Johnson said. Police said the woman was extremely distraught.

She said her husband was driving a white van, Johnson said. Officers quickly found the van in the 300 block of W. Ocean Boulevard.

The Glenn M. Anderson Federal Building is at the corner of Ocean Boulevard and Magnolia Avenue, just west of that location.

A Press-Telegram reporter heading into City Hall saw the incident begin when a patrol car pulled up behind the white van.

An officer got out, pulled out his gun and aimed it out of the open vehicle door.

Man with gun in custody of Long Beach PD after hours of standoff in front of city hall pic.twitter.com/2jQejWfJbW — Thomas R. Cordova (@Artscphoto) March 8, 2018

“Get out of here! Get out of here! Run!” the officer shouted, waving his free hand at pedestrians going by.

Officers tried to negotiate with the man and get him to put down a handgun he was holding, but he wasn’t complying, Johnson said.

“We were negotiating with the suspect approximately two hours to get him to surrender peacefully,” Johnson said. “He was noncompliant during this period and an officer-involved shooting occurred.”

Video from news helicopters showed the man talking as he stood in the drivers-side doorway of the van, which had Oregon plates. He was holding something in his right hand.

It’s unclear if the man had any explosives to carry out his alleged threat. The bomb squad was on scene Wednesday evening trying to make that determination, according to Johnson.

Detectives are also talking with the woman who said she was the man’s wife to try to find out what motivated him to make the threat, Johnson said.

The standoff tied up a busy swath of downtown Long Beach through the evening rush hour. Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia Tweeted at one point that he was at City Hall, which had been locked down.

We have a barricaded suspect with a gun near City Hall. Police are on the scene. City Hall is on lockdown and everyone in the building is safe. I’m here at City Hall with the team. Please stay away from Ocean and Magnolia. — Robert Garcia (@RobertGarciaLB) March 8, 2018

Upstairs, a number of city employees gathered in Councilman Daryl Supernaw’s 14th-floor office, which had a bird’s-eye view of the standoff, the councilman said. Police told them to stay away from the windows.

But when they heard the shot, one of them went to the window and saw the man being dragged away from the vehicle.

Staff writers Chris Haire and Andrew Edwards contributed to this report.