Update: D.C. police have identified the man who died as 40-year-old Savontae Dodie Perkins, of Northwest D.C.

In a statement issued Wednesday, the Metropolitan Police Department alleged that Perkins fired shots at officers as they approached him in near 14th Street. The officers then returned fire, and Perkins fired additional shots. MPD’s statement did not say if Perkins was wounded by the officers.

He was later found in an alleyway nearby with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to D.C police. Officers recovered a firearm on the scene.

Original: A man is dead from what D.C. officials say is a self-inflicted gunshot wound after an overnight incident in Columbia Heights during which police fired their weapons at him as they investigated reports of shots fired in the area.

According to a briefing from Assistant Police Chief Leslie Parsons, police officers responded to the 1400 block of Park Road NW on Monday at 11:30 p.m., where they found casings on the ground but no victim.

“While they were still on the scene, they observed an individual who matched the [description of] one of the persons of interest. Officers gave that subject verbal commands to stop, they wanted to talk to him. The individual refused to stop, one of the officers then announced to his fellow officers that the individual had a gun in his hand. At that point, officers… did discharge their firearms in the direction of the suspect. The suspect fled the scene on foot,” said Parsons.

Later, said Parsons, the man was found in a nearby alleyway suffering from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound; Parsons added that police spoke to a witness who saw the man use the gun on himself.

Police say that the officers involved turned on their body-worn cameras, and the footage will be reviewed as part of the investigation into the incident. D.C. law requires that in cases of serious use of force or a death, footage from the body-worn cameras cameras be released to the public within five business days, along with the names of the officers involved. The officers have been placed on administrative leave, according to MPD.

Earlier this month a D.C. police officer shot and seriously injured a man in Southeast during an investigation into an assault, though it later emerged that the man shot was not linked to the assault in question. Last week, Fairfax County police shot and killed a D.C. man following reports of a theft from a store at the Tysons mall. Also this month, the U.S. Attorney for D.C. said it would not be bringing any charges against two D.C. police officers involved in separate shootings of two men last summer: Lazarus Wilson, who was shot and killed during an incident at The Wharf, and Kevin Hargraves-Shird, killed during a foot chase in Fort Slocum.

This story has been updated with additional information from D.C. police.