SF. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A man who was shot and killed by Minnesota police officers is wanted in the fatal shooting of his pregnant wife, authorities said.

The Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the man killed as 36-year-old Mychel Allan Stowers. He was shot on Saturday in St. Paul. Two officers involved in the shooting are on paid leave pending the investigation.

Stowers was wanted in the shooting death of Damara Alexis Kirkland, 35. She was about two months pregnant when she was killed on Oct. 19, police said. There were ultrasound photos in the apartment and a letter addressed to Stowers in the mailbox, according to a probable cause statement.

Officers from St. Paul learned from a tip that Stowers was on business Saturday, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said in a news release. Stowers left on a bicycle before several squad cars came to stop him, the agency said.

He pulled out a gun and pointed it at the officers, according to a preliminary investigation by the bureau. The two officers opened fire, killing Stowers. No one else was hurt.

Stowers had been paroled from prison in March on a second-degree murder charge in the 2008 shooting death of a St. Paul. He was off work and living in a halfway house, but had been granted a permit to visit a woman described in the probable cause statement as his ex-wife on the day of the shooting.

Stowers filed for divorce in June, though it does not appear to have been finalized, other court records show.

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