Slocan, B.C.-  The Independent Investigations Office  (IIO) has been deployed to Slocan, to investigate the police shooting death of 45  year old Peter DeGroot.

The IIO says  further information will be released later this evening.

250News  has learned DeGroot died  this afternoon, but there has been no word on the circumstances which led to his death.

DeGroot  had been the subject o an intense manhunt since last Thursday following an altercation with another man.  There had  been reports DeGroot had  fired at least one shot at police.  That incident  led to police  calling for  residents in the East Kootenay town  to stay indoors.

The lockdown later lifted, when it was thought DeGroot had escaped to wooded areas around the town.