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Alex Mitchell

Police fatal shooting raises mental health questions

Police-led responses to mental health episodes are under the spotlight again after a fatal shooting. (Joe Castro/AAP PHOTOS)

Police have shot dead a man believed to have been experiencing a mental health episode who barricaded himself inside a house during a six-hour stand-off.

The 49-year-old is said to have armed himself with a shard of glass and taken hold of a police officer before being fatally shot on NSW's Central Coast.

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