Man shot dead by police at railway station named

A man shot dead by police officers at Milton Keynes railway station has been named.

David Joyce, 38, was from the city and was killed on Tuesday after police responded to reports of a man with a gun at the station. It later emerged he was carrying a knife.

Thames Valley Police said a single shot was fired by an officer and Mr Joyce was given first aid, but died at the scene.

The force referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which named Mr Joyce and is carrying out an investigation into the case.

The IOPC said Mr Joyce was formally identified at a post-mortem examination on Thursday morning. The provisional cause of his death was a single gunshot wound to the abdomen.

The watchdog said it had already viewed a "substantial amount" of CCTV and police body-worn camera footage of the incident.

It said it had "established that, at around 13:04 BST, the man was just outside the railway station main entrance with a knife in his hand, and ran towards officers".

Shortly afterwards, Mr Joyce was shot at close range.

The investigation team said all officers who attended the scene were being treated as witnesses.

Derrick Campbell, the IOPC director, said: "Given a man has died after being shot by police, our role is to independently investigate all of the circumstances surrounding this incident, including the actions and decisions taken by the police.

"We have obtained details of some members of the public who witnessed the incident who we will be contacting.

"However, we know there were many people near the station around the time of the shooting and we want to hear from anyone who may have seen the incident or has footage of it."

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