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Indiana police fatally shoot man who allegedly killed 2 people

Indiana police officers fatally shot a man after exchanging gunfire. The man is suspected of killing two people in northern Indiana on Sunday.

A man suspected of killing two people early Sunday in northern Indiana was fatally shot during a shootout with police, authorities said.

The encounter between the man and local and state officers occurred around 5:30 a.m. in Angola, a town of about 9,000 people near Indiana's borders with Michigan and Ohio. It was nearly five hours after police discovered the bodies of two men outside a local home, Indiana State Police said.

The man exchanged gunfire with police, then fled on foot. During another exchange, he was struck at least once and killed, state police said.

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The man "matched the description of the person suspected of shooting the two males" about 1 a.m., state police said.

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No names were released.

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