PITTSTON, Pa. (AP) – A 77-year-old man on a motorized scooter who pointed what appeared to be a handgun at police officers and refused their demands to drop it was shot by them and was killed, authorities said.

Robert Patrick Quinn had been waving the realistic-looking pellet gun around outside an apartment complex for elderly, disabled and low-income residents in Pittston on Sunday night when officers arrived, investigators said.

Quinn, who lived at the complex, had recently been diagnosed with cancer, neighbors said. Police said people they interviewed told them he had expressed suicidal intentions.