This story was updated at 12:10 p.m. Nov. 28, 2011.

A Prince George's County police officer shot and killed a man who fired a gun at officers Friday after barricading himself inside an Aquasco house, police say.

About 6:15 p.m., officers got a call that Phillip Charles Boling, 49, of the 21000 block of Aquasco Road was suicidal, said Cpl. Larry Johnson, a county police spokesman. When officers arrived to Aquasco Road, Boling exited the house, fired one shot from a gun at officers and then went inside the house, starting the barricade, Johnson said. The gunfire did not injure any officers, Johnson said.

A conflict management team tried to reason with Boling, who did not respond to the team. Boling exited the house again, this time with two handguns, and approached a county police officer, Johnson said.

That officer, an 11-year veteran, shot the man when he refused to drop his weapons, Johnson said. The officer, whose name had not been released Monday, is on administrative leave per department protocol, Johnson said.

Boling was taken to an area hospital, where he died from his injuries. No phone number was listed for the home or Boling’s family.

"In situations like this, our primary goal is to protect the community, and unfortunately this person presented a threat to the community, presented a threat to the officer, and the officer unfortunately had to take action," Johnson said.

No one else was inside the house at the time of the barricade, Johnson said. The situation lasted between 10 and 20 minutes overall, Johnson said.

Cpl. Henry Tippett, a county police spokesman, said he had no additional information Monday about the incident.

The incident marks the latest in seven police-involved shootings this year in Prince George’s, including six fatal “contact shootings,” in which a suspect was actually struck by a bullet, Tippett said.

Most recently, police shot and killed a District Heights man who barricaded himself in his home and wounded an officer Nov. 12 after allegedly shooting two Prince George’s residents in the parking lot of Arundel Mills Mall in Hanover hours earlier.

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