YOUNGSTOWN – Youngstown Police Capt. Brad Blackburn confirmed this morning’s incident in the 4300 block of Helena Avenue began with officers responding to a call for a burglary, but ended with a person being killed by police.

“Officers responded. They found an individual in the house that did not have a right to be there,” Blackburn said.

“We had an officer involved shooting at that point. The individual is deceased. We contacted (the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation). They are going to take over the investigation at this point,” he said. “None of the officers were injured.”

The Vindicator confirmed a man who lists the 4312 Helena Ave. address as his home is incarcerated in Mahoning County jail.

A large contingent of officers gathered at a South Side home this morning. The home is now taped off with crime scene tape. Helena Avenue is between Market Street and Southern Boulevard. The two-story house where the shooting happened is just north of Lucy Street.

In addition to several police detectives, officers and personnel with the Mahoning County Coroner’s Office at the scene today is an internal affairs officer. Mayor Jamael Tito Brown and police Chief Carl Davis also were on scene earlier today.

One woman who lives nearby said her son heard a “pop, pop, pop” sound “early” this morning. She did not know what time, but she first notice police in the neighborhood at about 10 a.m.

A BCI spokesman also confirmed this morning the police department requested the agency’s assistance in investigating a fatal officer-involved shooting on Helena Avenue.

A reporter with The Vindicator saw him arrive at about 11:10 a.m. and proceed to speak to various officers and a coroner’s investigator before walking up the driveway toward the house.

Dominic Binkley, deputy press secretary for BCI, also also said no officers were injured and the investigation is in its preliminary stages. BCI was not releasing any further information.

Blackburn said the police department will do an internal affairs investigation.

“It will cross mesh at some point. We do certain things administratively that we have too. We just called in BCI for transparency.”

Blackburn is head of the patrol division and part of the team that responds to any officer involved shootings or discharges, he said. That is the reason he went to the scene, he said.