{"id":765340,"date":"2026-06-27T19:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T19:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765340\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T19:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T19:47:11","slug":"man-killed-in-police-shooting-in-cold-lake-alberta-rcmp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765340\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed in police shooting in Cold Lake, Alberta: RCMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was killed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/police-shooting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police shooting<\/a> Thursday as <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/rcmp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RCMP<\/a> in Cold Lake, Alta, responded to a domestic call involving a firearm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>According to release from the RCMP, officers arrived at the home around 4:48 p.m. and a found an armed man inside as well as two other people who were able to flee safely.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you&#8217;ll never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<p>Attempts to communicate with the man were unsuccessful and the RCMP Emergency Response Team was called in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn altercation occurred with police in which at least one officer discharged their service weapon, striking the suspect,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The man was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) has been called in to investigate the shooting. RCMP said no officers were injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was killed in a police shooting Thursday as RCMP in Cold Lake, Alta, responded to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44,240185,145631,920],"class_list":["post-765340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-officer-involved-shooting","tag-police-shooting","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765340","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=765340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}