One man died in an officer-involved shooting last week following a bank alarm in downtown Port Angeles.

Two Port Angeles police officers who responded to the hold-up alarm on May 3 encountered a man with a handgun outside Chase Bank, 101 W. Front St., Police Chief Brian Smith and Clallam County Sheriff Brian King said in a prepared statement.

“The facts as we believe them to be now tell us that the PAPD Officers were confronted with a lethal threat and that they carried out their duties to protect the public and other officers,” the statement said.

It was not immediately clear whether one or both of the officers fired their weapons.

Police officers and sheriff’s deputies immediately provided emergency medical aid to the man, and firefighter/paramedics from the Port Angeles Fire Department responded and initiated advanced life-support measures, police said.

The man, who remained unidentified, died at the scene. There were no other known suspects, according to a press release from the city of Port Angeles.

“There are victims out there,” King said at a press conference Friday afternoon at the Clallam County Courthouse. “There were acts of heroism by the officers today, but there are employees of Chase Bank that had to live in terror.

“Their friends and family are hurting today.”

The Kitsap Critical Incident Response Team (KCIRT) took over the investigation after the scene was secured, but road closures remained on Front Street between Lincoln Street and Oak Street, and Laurel Street between First Street and Railroad Avenue.

A group of 24 students from Roosevelt Elementary School was near the incident, the Port Angeles School District reported in an email to parents. They were immediately evacuated to the nearest safe location. No students or staff were injured, the district said.

School district staff worked with law enforcement to ensure the students returned to Roosevelt safely, the district said.

Peninsula Communications dispatch center received notification of the hold-up call at 9:52 a.m., police said. Port Angeles police officers arrived at the bank shortly thereafter. Clallam County Sheriff’s deputies and officers from the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe also responded.

At 9:57 a.m., Port Angeles police officers reported a man at the scene was being uncooperative. Soon afterward, shots were fired.

“It was determined that the Port Angeles Police Department (PAPD) Officer(s) used deadly force by firing their duty weapons at the suspect,” police said in the prepared statement.

KCIRT will investigate the underlying crime and the use of force, police said. The overall incident management, coverage of additional calls within the city, traffic control and other issues will be handled by the inter-agency incident management team.

Law enforcement agencies assisting with security and traffic control included the Elwha police, Washington State Patrol, the National Park Service, the U.S. Border Patrol and the Sequim Police Department.

The Port Angeles Police Department will not be involved in the criminal investigation of the incident, Smith said. PAPD will later conduct an internal investigation, he said.

Photo by Keith Thorpe/Olympic Peninsula News Group / Port Angeles Police Chief Brian Smith, left, and Clallam County Sheriff Brian King conduct a briefing at the Clallam County Courthouse on May 3 following an officer-involved fatal shooting earlier in the day outside Chase Bank at Front and Laurel streets in downtown Port Angeles.