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An article titled, "Armed man dressed in all-green riding a bicycle shoots at two officers before being fatally shot.", discusses a report that a man had a gun in a park, so when officers approached him he quickly rode off and wouldn't talk to the officers. They caught up to him in the park and told him to stop, which he did finally, but he turned and shot at the officers, to which the officers returned fire and killed the suspect. Did this have to happen? Not necessarily.