Police fatally shoot man on Wisconsin middle school rooftop

Roof of police car at night, lights flashing
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GERMANTOWN, WIS. (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Police in Germantown, Wisconsin, north of Milwaukee, were involved in a shooting Monday night at a middle school.

Police responded to reports of a "subject acting erratically" in the parking lot of Kennedy Middle School around 6:36 p.m., according to a statement from the Wisconsin Department of Justice.

The man climbed onto the roof of the school. There was a volleyball game going on inside at the time.  More than 50 students were there.

The statement said the man fired at police officers, and they returned fire, hitting the man.

The officers gave him first aid, the statement said, and he died at the scene.

Nobody else was injured.

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