State Police have identified the man who died after being shot by troopers during a domestic incident in Malta on Thursday morning. 

Police responded to the Ellsworth Commons Apartments on Route 9 at around 9 a.m. Thursday morning for a report of a domestic incident. Brandon R. Moore, 37, had barricaded himself inside, according to police.

Negotiations to get him to surrender were not successful. Moore then exited the apartment holding what appeared to be a handgun, police said. Officers told him to drop the weapon. He pointed it at them, and they fired their weapons and killed him.

The weapon was later identified as a carbon dioxide-powered BB pistol, according to police.

Two troopers were hurt during the incident. They were treated and released from the hospital.

The investigation is ongoing. The Attorney General’s Office is involved.  

Ellsworth Apartment building #2 was evacuated out of an abundance of caution before the shooting. Police are working to be able to get residents back into the building. However, the sprinkler system was set off, which flooded an unknown number of apartments and made the building uninhabitable.

Police did not state how the sprinkler was activated.

State Police Maj. Christopher Gilroy said at a news conference that Moore had a criminal record, but did not provide further details.

NewsChannel 13’s Dan Levy spoke with resident Alicia Pultorak, who works an overnight shift at a hospital. She said she got home and started to go to sleep. She saw three cop cars that pulled up outside, and then another dozen or more.

Pultorak said she saw a woman come out of the building escorted by police officers.

“Her face was all bloody,” she said.

An officer told Pultorak a short time later what happened.

“She had said that the boyfriend had punched her in the face and proceeded to say that he was going to kill everyone in the building and himself,” she said.

The building is currently uninhabitable, according to police.

Pultorak said maintenance told her it will probably be three to five days before they can get back in.

“It was very, very traumatic,” she said. 

This comes on the heels of a man who was shot in front of the Malta State Police barracks Wednesday afternoon after he started shooting at the building.

Seen here is the carbon dioxide-powered BB pistol that State Police said Brandon R. Moore pointed at them.