British police say a man fitting the description of fugitive Raoul Moat has been shot after a six-hour stand-off with armed officers, the BBC is reporting.
In a statement, Northumbria Police said “a shot or shots have been fired” and the injured man is now receiving treatment.
No officers have been injured.
Police had been negotiating “for hours” with a man fitting the description of fugitive gunman Raoul Moat in the town of Rothbury, the BBC is reporting this morning.
People in the town had been told to “go home and lock the door” by armed officers.
Moat is wanted over the shooting of his ex-girlfriend, her new partner – who was killed – and a police officer.
An eye-witness Chris Robertson told BBC News earlier he had seen a man resembling Moat with a gun pointed at his neck.
Speaking on a mobile phone from inside the exclusion zone, he told BBC News: “There was a man down by the river with what appeared to be a sawn-off shotgun pointing at his own neck.
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