Clearwater police shot and killed an armed man they say was suicidal early Thursday at an apartment complex. 

No officers were injured.

  • Armed suicidal man shot, killed by police
  • Shooting happened at Clearwater apartment
  • Mitchell Fox, 34, died at area hospital. No officers hurt

According to police, the wife of Mitchell Fox, 34, call police just before 12:30 a.m. to report her husband was armed and threatening to kill himself. His wife said Fox got in his truck with a weapon and drove off. He returned to the complex a short time later and put his truck in the middle of the parking lot.

Officers responded to the The Sands of Clearwater at 2150 Druid Road a short time later. Upon arrival, officers came into contact with Fox, who was armed with a gun. 

Fox got out of the truck armed police said.

Police said Fox refused their commands to drop the weapon. Fox was shot after threatening an officer, police said. Fox was rushed to Bayfront Health St. Petersburg, where he later died. 

Police said they removed evidence from the truck that appeared to be two long-barreled weapons.

The officer involved in the shooting, who has worked with the department for almost one year, will be placed on administrative leave. 

"The officer ordered him (Fox) several times to drop his gun," said Clearwater Police Chief Dan Slaughter. "The officer was between an occupied apartment building and Mr. Fox. And eventually the gap between them closed to the point where the officer had to use deadly force."

Fox lived at the apartment with his wife and their two children. The family had recently moved to Clearwater from Kentucky, according to officials. 

Police said Fox's wife told them her husband had first threatened to harm himself as recently as Sunday. 

When he initially left the apartment early Thursday, she said he told her he "was going to hell and not coming back." 

The shooting is being investigated by the Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney's Office and reviewed internally.