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Shootout with police leaves 1 dead, 1 in custody; narcotics operation in Manhattan: sources >INWOOD, Manhattan (WABC) -- One person is dead and another is in police custody after a narcotics operation in Manhattan ended in a shootout with law enforcement.
>Officials say the incident happened around 8:40 p.m. in the Inwood section.
>An undercover joint narcotics operation between federal partners and the NYPD turned fatal when law enforcement tried to arrest a suspect.
>Sources say two suspects fired at police as they were moving the investigation into the first floor of an apartment building.
>Gunshots were exchanged between both law enforcement and the two suspects.
>One suspect was killed as the second suspect tried to barricade himself inside the apartment.
>No members of law enforcement were injured during this incident and the second suspect was eventually taken into custody.
>Two guns, one belonging to each of the suspects, was recovered at the scene. Charges against the suspect in police custody are pending.
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