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Police shot and killed a Black man at a Charlotte, North Carolina, housing division Tuesday during a search for a suspect on an outstanding warrant, according to WSOCTV.

[According to USA Today, police observed an unidentified man inside of a vehicle. Police say he exited with a firearm and then re-entered the car. Officers say when they approached the vehicle, they considered the man a dangerous threat, fatally shooting him. Authorities rushed the man to Carolinas Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.

The officers involved have been placed on administrative leave. According to WCNC, police recovered a firearm and are interviewing witnesses who were at the scene.

The man has been identified as Keith Lamont Scott, 43 and relatives say he was disabled and unarmed. He was waiting in the car for his son to be dropped off after school. According to a video recorded at the scene by the man’s daughter, he had a book in his hand at the time of the shooting. Scott was not the subject of the warrant. He was shot by Officer Brentley Vison, who is Black.

The daughter, ripe with anger and grief, live streamed the aftermath of the shooting on Facebook after learning her father had been shot. (Editor’s note: The video contains violent and sexually explicit language.)

According to the man’s brother, who was interviewed on the scene, the man was shot four times by a plainclothes officer.

“He was waiting on his son to get from school and police came out with no — he didn’t have on no uniform to determine if he was a police or not — he was an undercover and he just jumped out and yelled ‘gun’ and shot at him,” the brother of the man killed told WCNC“I think they shot him four times, I’m not sure, but he’s dead,” he continued.

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Protesters have gathered near the scene, according to reports.

SOURCES: WSOCTV.com, USA Today, WCNC, Facebook | PHOTO CREDIT: Getty, Twitter

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Charlotte Police Shoot And Kill Disabled Black Man, Sparking Protests  was originally published on newsone.com