SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Police shot and killed a man in a vehicle Sunday when it was stopped by police officers for traffic violation investigation near the Merrill Field airport in downtown Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska, authorities said.
The Anchorage Daily News quoted the police as saying that the male passenger in the back of the vehicle fired at the police officers, who shot back and fatally injured the person.
One of the officers suffered minor injuries in the upper body during the shooting, but no other people, including the rest of the passengers in the vehicle, were wounded, said the police.
Police authorities said the name of the killed man will not be disclosed until his family is informed.
This is the third officer-involved shooting that has occurred in Anchorage since early this year, which is also the first fatal one in the city.
