At about 1500h. today, the police say that ranks of the Cane Grove Police Station responded to reports received that Junior Gulliver, 30 years, of Strathavon, ECD, who is reported to be mentally unstable, was threatening a woman with a cutlass at Strathavon.
During their investigations the police say that ranks were attacked by Gulliver, who was armed with the cutlass, causing the police to resort to the use of force and he was shot to his body. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Mahaicony Hospital.
The windscreen and other parts of a motor vehicle that was used by the ranks to get to the scene was also damaged by Gulliver during the incident.
The Police Office of Professional Responsibility is conducting investigations into the matter.
