Baltimore Police fatally shot a 37-year-old man who officials say was armed in the 2800 block of Pelham Avenue on Tuesday evening.

Group Violence Unit officers in a Belair-Edison liquor store observed a man they suspected to be armed, Police Commissioner Richard Worley said at a press conference, and they followed him after he left the store.

Officers commanded him to show his hands and he ran away, the commissioner said.

As officers gave chase and demanded to see the man’s hands, he continued running and pulled out a handgun, Worley said, and officers pulled out their weapons.

Worley said two officers opened fire and at least 16 rounds were fired, but that officials weren’t sure if the man fired a weapon or pointed one toward officers.

A police spokesperson said the officers wore police vests over plain clothes.

The man was transported to a hospital, Worley said, where he was pronounced dead. The commissioner said the two officers have been placed on administrative leave.

Law enforcement descended on the Belair-Edison neighborhood as Baltimore Police blocked Belair Road from the Shrine of the Little Flower Roman Catholic Church to Belair Discount Liquors.

The neighborhood was eerily quiet except for a woman shouting from a nearby porch that Baltimore Police fatally shot her cousin.

Officers placed nearly two dozen yellow numbered evidence markers at the corner of Belair Road and Pelham Avenue. A few residents braved the cold to see what was happening. They shook their heads at the scene before them.

The Maryland Office of the Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division, which investigates all fatalities involving police in the state, was on the scene Tuesday evening.

This is the second fatal police shooting in Baltimore this year.

In January, Baltimore Police officers fatally shot Jamarl Muse in Southeast Baltimore after he allegedly fired at them while resisting arrest.

The day before Muse was killed, an officer shot 48-year-old Autumn Elizabeth Denny as she experienced a mental health crisis at a Bolton Hill apartment complex. She was shot twice in the lower leg and taken to a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.

This story has been updated.