WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, Manhattan (WABC) -- An off-duty police officer fatally shot a 30-year-old armed suspect riding a moped in Washington Heights on Sunday.

Officials say two men on mopeds approached the off-duty officer just before 9:45 p.m. Sunday on West 173rd Street and asked if they knew a certain person's name, saying "does Steve live here?"

One of the men pulled a gun and the off-duty officer "drew his firearm, discharged multiple rounds," Deputy Chief Eric Pagan, an executive officer of the Patrol Borough of Manhattan North, said.

In video from a resident, you can hear someone on the street saying "shots fired."

The 30-year-old man was pronounced dead at Harlem Hospital.

Police believe he is an undocumented migrant from the Dominican Republic who crossed the border in El Paso,

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