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Police in Raleigh, North Carolina, say a man is dead and a police officer has been wounded after shots were fired at the end of a foot-chase by officers responding to a call of a man with a gun. Spokesman Jim Sughrue said in a statement that an officer responding to the call spotted the man in the street and began a foot chase. Sughrue said a second officer joined in the chase. The chase ended with shots being fired, and Sughrue said the unidentified man and a police officer were taken to a hospital. Sughrue said the man was pronounced dead, while the officer is being treated for serious, but non-life threatening injuries. The races of the officers and the man weren't immediately known.