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A woman has died following a police incident in a quiet residential area of Burnaby overnight.
The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. (IIO BC) said RCMP officers were responding to a call about a person in distress at a home near the intersection of Carleton Avenue and Oxford Street when they encountered a woman who was reportedly in possession of weapons.
“There was an interaction between the woman and police, and shots were fired by police,” the IIO BC said in a statement.
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“The woman suffered gunshot injuries and was pronounced deceased at the scene.”
A neighbour told Global News that his wife heard multiple gunshots.
“When I got into the house, I asked my wife, ‘I said, you know, is everything all right’ and she says, ‘Well, I heard a couple of gunshots in succession very quickly and the place was swarming with police officers, but none of them went door-to-door’,” Kerry Ervin said.
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“So that was kind of ominous in the fact that, you know, I think that what happened was pretty quick and pretty sudden.”
The IIO BC investigates police-involved incidents in B.C. that involve serious injury or death.
The agency will work to determine if there has been an injury that meets the threshold of serious harm as defined by the Police Act, or a death and if there is a connection between the serious harm or death and officer action or inaction.
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