BRUNSWICK (AP) – Authorities Friday said the armed robbery suspect killed by police in an exchange of gunfire outside a pizza parlor died of a single gunshot wound to the neck.

The attorney general’s office identified the man as Kim David Niedermann, 54, of Thomaston. Niedermann died of the bullet wound to the neck, but also suffered a single gunshot wound to the abdomen, according to the chief medical Examiner.

The attorney general’s office, which looks into all incidents involving use of deadly force by law enforcement officers, was investigating the Thursday night shooting that capped a 90-minute drama that began with a holdup at a Waldoboro pharmacy and was followed by a carjacking in Bath.

The sequence of events unfolded around 5:30 p.m. when a man wearing a ski mask entered Waltz Pharmacy, showed a weapon and demanded drugs, said Brunswick Police Chief Jerry Hinton.

The suspect used a purple PT Cruiser as a getaway car and drove south on Route 220.

About an hour later, police radio traffic was heard in Brunswick that the suspect was being chased by several police vehicles southbound on U.S. Route 1 in Wiscasset.

The chase continued into Woolwich and Bath, where the suspect’s vehicle ran over a spike mat and shots were fired, Hinton said.

After firing at police as they maneuvered their cruisers to box in his vehicle at the Bath Shopping Center, the man forced a woman out of her Subaru and sped south on U.S. 1, Sagadahoc County Sheriff Mark Westrum said.

“The immediate concern there was the safety of the victim of the vehicle he was carjacking from, so nobody opened fire at that point,” Westrum said.

The owner of the Subaru was not injured, police said.

Shortly before 7 p.m., Brunswick police spotted the suspect on Route 1, this time driving the Subaru. Police put out spike mats, forcing the vehicle to exit the highway at Cooks Corner and pull into the Papa John’s pizza parlor parking lot.

There, Hinton said, Niedermann got out of his vehicle, pulled a gun and began firing. Officers returned fire and the suspect was killed, the chief said.

Hinton on Friday identified the officers who returned fire as Sagadahoc Sheriff’s Deputy Chad Carleton and Brunswick Police Officer Paul Hansen.

The incident was witnessed by Paul Burrows of Brunswick, who was buying gas at a station next to the pizza parlor when he saw the green Subaru with blown tires pull into the lot with police cars in pursuit.

The man had a gun in his hand as he jumped from the Subaru, said Burrows, who hid behind a parked pickup truck just before shots were fired.

“As soon as I saw the gun, I got over behind the pickup,” he said. “My (car) window got shot out as I was running. I heard my glass flying.”

Burrows said it appeared that the officers fired in self-defense.

“He got out and started shooting first. The police really had to shoot back to protect themselves. They had to shoot or get shot,” Burrows said.

Hinton said Brunswick police, Maine State Police and the Attorney General’s office were all involved in the investigation.