The incident happened at a property in Islington and it is understood the man and the woman knew each other.
A statement from the Metropolitan Police said
the woman was unharmed and is being treated for shock.
The man was treated at the scene in Shepperton
Road but died on the way to hospital.
Police had sent a negotiator to the scene at
11.19pm on Thursday following reports the man had broken into a house.
Rosa Whiteread, 28, a primary school teacher
who lives in the street, said: "I was asleep and I heard shouting - it
woke me up. It must have been around 12.30 at night.
"I looked out of the window and I saw
lots of police, there must have been around a dozen of them. I asked them what
was going on, but they said they couldn't tell me.
"I'm not sure if the police were armed,
but I saw a police dog. It's shocking."
Another neighbour, who asked not to be named,
said: "I heard lots of shots - three or four. Like a bonfire. I've never
heard anything like it before. It was really scary.
"There were a lot of police with guns. It
was very scary. The people who lived there moved in around a year ago - I
thought the man was her son."
Neil Basu, Specialist Crime and Operations
officer with the Metropolitan Police, said: "Initial reports were that a
man had broken into the house and officers were faced with a man threatening a
woman with a knife.
"Police negotiators and the London
Ambulance Service were call called to the scene. The man was shot by police and
treated at the scene but pronounced dead en-route to hospital.
"The woman is unharmed but in shock. We
believe the man and women were known to each other but we cannot confirm the
nature of that relationship. The man is a 40-year-old black man who was born in
Islington.
"In the last 24 hours we have seen a
number of high-profile incidents. Those kind of incidents are very rare indeed
and London continues to be a safe city."
Skynews
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