{"id":724969,"date":"2026-06-09T10:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/724969\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:45:09","slug":"watchdog-to-probe-vancouver-police-after-fatal-shooting-of-home-invasion-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/724969\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog to probe Vancouver police after fatal shooting of home invasion suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">VANCOUVER \u2014 British Columbia&#8217;s police watchdog has been asked to investigate after police in East Vancouver fatally shot a person while responding to a home invasion involving a hostage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Vancouver police say they were called late Monday to the 3600 block of Commercial Street about a &#8220;violent&#8221; home invasion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators claim the suspect entered the home and was holding a man hostage.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say despite attempts to de-escalate the situation, the suspect was shot and killed, while the hostage was taken to hospital with injuries and has since been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They say no officers were injured and the province&#8217;s Independent Investigations Office has been called in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The watchdog investigates matters of death or serious harm that may have been the result of the actions or inactions of a police officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 9, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2014 British Columbia&#8217;s police watchdog has been asked to investigate after police in East Vancouver fatally shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,75360,49428,190506,944,55],"class_list":["post-724969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-east-vancouver","tag-home-invasion","tag-police-officer","tag-the-canadian-press","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}