LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Federal and local investigators are conducting an investigation into an "officer involved shooting" Friday morning in west Louisville.

The Louisville Metro Police Department issued a statement Friday afternoon confirming that its Public Integrity Unit has been asked to investigate a shooting that took place by a deputy U.S. Marshal.

The incident began sometime around 8 a.m. on Sutcliffe Avenue, between 36th and 37th streets, near west Broadway in the Chickasaw neighborhood.

Representatives of the U.S. Marshals Office, SWAT and the Louisville Metro Police Department were on the scene, according to WDRB Reporter Dalton Godbey.

Yellow crime scene tape was visible blocking off a large perimeter around what had become an emotional scene. 

Several people identifying themselves as family members of someone presumably involved in the incident were weeping at the scene. They said their loved one was shot and killed at that location. 

"We all family, and they not telling nobody nothing," said Tidshawnda Spence, one of the people there.

They said the mother of the person who was shot was also on the scene.

"They say a U.S. Marshal pulled the trigger," said one man who said he was a family member. "That's what they say. They ain't told her nothing yet. She's out here."

At this point, authorities have provided little information about the shooting.

"When you don't know anything, and your family member is dead, and you're right here and the mother's here, come on now," Spence said. "Just a little compassion."

This story will be updated.

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