Quote: A man has died in hospital after being shot by police in the centre of Brighton.
Sussex Police said the shooting happened just after 1300 GMT in Rock Place.
The officers were on a pre-planned operation to find a man wanted in connection with a number of recent armed robberies, the force said.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said what appeared to be a black handgun had been recovered.
An IPCC spokeswoman said: "This will now be examined to establish whether it is real or an imitation weapon and whether it had been fired."
One witness reported hearing two gunshots ring out before police tried to revive the dying man.
He was pronounced dead a short time later at the Royal Sussex County Hospital.
The man, believed to be in his 40s, has not been formally identified.
Frankie Sparrowhawk, 18, who walked past as it happened, said he heard two shots and saw a man on the floor.
He said: "There were five or six police officers there at that point.
Students from a music school close to the scene in Rock Place described what they saw
"I was too far away to see if he was moving but it looked like one of them was trying to resuscitate him.
"An ambulance arrived within about two seconds."
Students at the Brighton Institute of Modern Music, which is just a few doors down from where the shooting happened, were ordered to stay inside by police. | 
