UPDATE, WEDNESDAY MORNING:

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UPDATE, 9 p.m.: Arcata Police Chief Tom Chapman spoke briefly with assembled media at the scene of tonight’s incident. Hear his statements in the video above. He went on to hint that a press release with more information would be forthcoming. —AG

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UPDATE, 8:25 p.m.:

We’re still waiting for an official word from authorities, but a resident who lives a block away from the incident tells the Outpost that at 6:49 p.m. she heard four or five gunshots followed by officers shouting, “Get down! Get the fuck down!”

“I just moved from west Oakland to here and I’m pretty used to those sounds,” she said.

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UPDATE, 7:58 p.m.:

A Shell station employee tells the Outpost that earlier this evening a man came into the station’s convenience store carrying a stick and a cane and acting strangely. He wandered the aisles, walked outside and back in and finally bought an alcoholic beverage, which he took outside and began to drink, still on the property.

The employee told the man to move on but he refused, and so the employee called the police. When they arrived, the employee said, the man refused to comply with officer instructions and charged toward them with his stick and cane, at which point shots were fired.

More info to come.

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Photos by Andrew Goff.

There has been an officer-involved shooting at the Shell gas station at the corner of G and 14th streets in Arcata, according to witnesses on the scene. G Street has been closed. Arcata police officers have responded to the scene and appear to be circled around some debris related to the incident.

The Outpost’s Andrew Goff is on the scene. We will report more information as it becomes available.