A man has died from a gunshot wound following a confrontation with police inside a home in the New South Wales town of Bathurst.
Police were called to a house on View Street in the Bathurst suburb of Kelso about 7:00pm on Wednesday night.
Police said they tried to resuscitate the man, Ian Fackender, but he died at the scene.
In a police radio recording a female voice said: "We've got a male down, he's been shot."
A male voice said: "All police have been accounted for ... none injured."
View Street was blocked off to the media by police.
Numerous ambulances and police vehicles were still on the scene hours after the incident.
On Thursday morning forensic officers continued to search the location
A critical incident investigation has been launched by the Homicide Squad.
That investigation will be subject to independent review and all information will be provided to the coroner, NSW Police said in a statement.
There have been three fatal police shootings in NSW in the past five weeks. On July 26, a 30-year-old man was shot dead at Sydney's Central Station after he attacked an elderly florist and ran at police with a pair of scissors.
On August 7, police shot a man in Grafton, on the state's mid-north coast, after he confronted them with knife. He died in hospital.
