southbound carriageway of the A11<\/a>, near the Brandon Road roundabout, walking in a northbound direction.\n<\/p>\n\n Armed officers fired two shots at 9pm and he was pronounced dead before 10.15pm, despite the efforts of emergency services.\n<\/p>\n
\n What appeared to be a non-police issue firearm was recovered from the scene.\n<\/p>\n
\n A post-mortem examination following his death took place on Friday and he has been named as Tony Keeble, aged 61, from Thetford.\n<\/p>\n
\n The provisional cause of death has been given as gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen.\n<\/p>\n
\n A date for the opening of the inquest is yet to be scheduled.\n<\/p>\n
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The A11 at Thetford was closed by police (Image: East Anglia News Service)\n<\/p>\n
\n Following the incident, Norfolk Constabulary referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) and an investigation was launched.\n<\/p>\n
\n The IOPC probe has so far found that Mr Keeble was ordered to drop his weapon.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n The shots were fired by two armed officers and all officers involved are currently being treated as witnesses.\n<\/p>\n
\n There is currently no indication that any officers breached the police standards of professional behaviour.\n<\/p>\n
\n IOPC director Amanda Rowe said: \u201cWe understand that any incident of this nature is likely to cause public concern, particularly in the local Norfolk community, with questions about the circumstances surrounding this event.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThat\u2019s why it\u2019s important that we carry out a robust and thorough independent investigation.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Our investigation remains in its early stages and we are still gathering and reviewing evidence as we work to establish the full circumstances.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cOur sympathies remain with everyone affected by this incident.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We have contacted Mr Keeble\u2019s family and will be meeting with them to explain our role and ensure they are kept updated as our investigation progresses.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armed officers were called to the A11 on Sunday after a man was seen leaving a crash in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-349262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}