Article 5WXD3 NT police say officer fired gun six times at Indigenous man allegedly armed with a spear

NT police say officer fired gun six times at Indigenous man allegedly armed with a spear

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Caitlin Cassidy
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Nineteen-year-old fighting for his life in Darwin hospital after incident at Palmerston on Tuesday morning

An Indigenous teenager is fighting for his life in a Darwin hospital after allegedly being shot at by a police officer six times during an incident in the Northern Territory city of Palmerston.

Two officers attended a park in the suburb of Gray about 9am on Tuesday morning where they found the man allegedly armed with a spear, NT police said.

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