Gary police shot and killed an armed man while executing a search warrant early Wednesday morning, officials said.

According to a spokesperson for the city in Northwest Indiana, the Gary Police Department SWAT team went to a home in the 600 block of Adams Street around 6:30 a.m. to execute a search warrant. Police said they had gotten multiple tips from neighbors and the community about someone selling and dealing narcotics from at the home.

As they were executing the warrant, the official said a person named in the warrant ran out the back of the home. There he ran into Gary officers and "engaged" them with a gun, at which point the officers opened fire.

The person was struck and later died from their injuries, police said.

A neighbor told CBS News Chicago said the were woken up by two noises that sounded like large explosions, then gunshots, and came outside through his back door to see a man on the ground.

"We just heard a loud explosion around 6:30 this morning. Told the kids to get down; right after the explosion we heard gunfire," said neighbor Anthony Griffin. "Walked out my back door, there's a man laying down and as I seen that, I told the kids to go back in the house."

Griffin said his kids recognized the man as their neighbor.

"My kids, they was like, 'That's the guy that used to wave to us,'" Griffin said.

It was not immediately clear if the person killed fired any shots, or how many police officers opened fire, nor who may have fired first. The man killed was identified as 46-year-old David Martin of Gary.

Martin's family declined to speak to CBS News Chicago.

The investigation, led by the Lake County Sheriff's Department, is ongoing.