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One man was in police custody Tuesday and another dead following reports of “possible” gun shots at a home in Clarence-Rockland.

Prescott and Russell Paramedics took a 75 year-old man to hospital where he was later pronounced dead, according to Russell County Ontario Provincial Police. Clarence-Rockland Fire Services were also involved.

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“I learned about this in an email from my fire chief when I got to work this morning at nine o’clock,” said Clarence-Rockland mayor Guy Desjardins.

“You read about these things in stories about other towns where people say they’ve never seen this sort of thing before,” the mayor added, “Well I guess we’re one of those towns now — I’ve never seen anything like this.”

Despite the email, however, Desjardins said he had “no information whatsoever” to add to the bare-bones release Tuesday evening from the OPP detachment.

“The OPP is being very quiet about this,” Desjardins said.

Police said an investigation was continuing under the direction of the Russell County crime unit with the help of the OPP East Region support team and the Long Sault forensic identification unit.

Det.-Insp. Dave MacDonald of the criminal investigation branch is leading the case.

The OPP was asking any witnesses to come forward.