A 59-year-old man has been shot and killed by Winnipeg police in the North End

Winnipeg police say officers shot and killed a 59-year-old man with a “large edged weapon” in his North End home Tuesday morning.

According to the Winnipeg Police Service, officers were at a home on Magnus Avenue near Main Street to take a man to hospital for an involuntary medical examination.

Police said officers arrived at 7:30 a.m. and were met by a man with a crowbar at the door. They said he became enraged and used a fire extinguisher on officers before barricading himself inside the house.

Police said members of the WPS Tactical Support Team (TST) were called in and they eventually broke into the house.

“(Officers) continued to make contact with the male subject who had barricaded himself in a second floor bedroom,” police said in a news release. “The man pulled out the fire extinguisher again on the TST members.”

Police say the man came out of the bedroom with an edged weapon when officers shot him.

He was taken to Heath Science Center in critical condition, where he died from his injuries.

Winnipeg police said they first obtained a warrant for the man's hospitalization under Manitoba's Mental Health Act on Feb. 8, but efforts to apprehend him in the following days were unsuccessful.

The Manitoba police watchdog, the Independent Investigations Unit (IIU), has been notified and is investigating. Witnesses or anyone with information is asked to come forward.

More will come.