This is a developing story and will be updated.
A man is dead after being shot by Asheville police in North Asheville on Tuesday night.
According to a statement by the Asheville Police Department, several people called 911 to report a man wielding a rifle.
Officers arrived at 107 Chatham Road and requested that the man drop his weapon, according to the police statement.
After he was shot, the 59-year old man, later identified as Chad Owen Herman, barricaded himself in the home and died, according to police.
The State Bureau of Investigation will conduct an investigation into the incident.
On Tuesday night, Police Chief Mike Lamb told BPR that prior to the incident, the deceased had an altercation with a contract city worker who was installing water meters.
"The subject became irate with that person, pointed a rifle at him," Lamb said. "The worker tried to leave the area, de-escalate the situation, but at that point the suspect assaulted him with a shovel seriously injuring him."
Lamb said the worker was transported by ambulance to Mission Hospital. A spokesperson for the department said the individual was released Tuesday evening.
"We'll have more information coming out tomorrow about anyone else that was possibly inside and also some of the other witnesses and citizens that were nearby that had a gun pointed at them by the suspect," Lamb said.
Late Tuesday evening, a spokesperson for the department told BPR in a statement, "There was another occupant in the home when the subject barricaded himself."
A search of North Carolina court records shows no criminal history by Herman in North Carolina.
The spokesperson confirmed to BPR that the the officer involved was not injured.
“Per the Asheville Police Department’s Use of Force Policy, the officer was placed on investigative leave,” the spokesperson said in an email.
