Alberta’s police watchdog is investigating a fatal shooting involving an officer in southwest Edmonton, which police say happened after officers encountered a suspect armed with “edged weapons.”<\/p>\n
In a news release Saturday, the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) said its officers attempted life-saving measures, but the suspect, a 59-year-old man, was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency services.<\/p>\n
No EPS officers or other emergency personnel were injured in the incident, the release said.<\/p>\n
At around 11:58 p.m. on Friday, EPS officers were called by fire services to the scene of a collision between a vehicle and a fire rescue truck.<\/p>\n
It was reported to police that the driver of the vehicle attempted to assault emergency personnel with a blunt object before fleeing the scene, the release said.<\/p>\n
Police said officers also received two more “hit-and-run reports” involving a similar vehicle in Edmonton’s southwest. These incidents also involved complainants being allegedly assaulted with a blunt object by the driver, before he fled.<\/p>\n
One driver sustained minor injuries, the release said.<\/p>\n
Police located a vehicle matching the description of the car at the earlier incidents at a residence on Christie Vista S.W.<\/p>\n
“The vehicle appeared to have recent collision damage,” the release said.<\/p>\n
“When attempting to make contact with the subject, a confrontation occurred between a male suspect armed with edged weapons and one officer discharged a firearm.”<\/p>\n
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, the police watchdog, has been deployed by the Police Review Commission to conduct an independent investigation into the shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alberta’s police watchdog is investigating a fatal shooting involving an officer in southwest Edmonton, which police say happened…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752,17443,272597,6972,8885],"class_list":["post-766582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-police-service","tag-emergency-personnel","tag-officer","tag-southwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766582","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=766582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}