A man is dead and two police officers are on leave after an early morning shooting in Hixson.

Chattanooga police say the shooting happened around 2:15am Thursday on Hamill Road, just off Highway 153.

An officer was dispatched to the scene for a reported burglary. As they arrived, a man was spotted trying to drive away.

Police say the officer ordered the man to stop and get out of the truck.

That officer and a second Chattanooga police officer tried to remove the man from the truck but police say the man tried to drive away, hitting a police vehicle and nearly hitting one of the officers.

Chattanooga police say the officers then fired at the man and hit him.

The officers attempted life-saving measures on the man, who died from his injuries.

Police say there was also a passenger in th

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