{"id":786954,"date":"2026-07-07T22:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T22:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/786954\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T22:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T22:13:11","slug":"man-shot-by-police-inside-south-edmonton-home-asirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/786954\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot by police inside south Edmonton home: ASIRT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Edmonton police officer fatally shot a man who may have been carrying weapons inside a home in the Cavanagh neighbourhood last month, according to the province\u2019s police watchdog.<\/p>\n<p>The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) says the Edmonton Police Service officer fired their service weapon during the June 27 confrontation, killing the man.<\/p>\n<p>The watchdog says police were responding to multiple reports of crashes involving a man driving a black Jeep in south Edmonton, including a collision with an Edmonton Fire Rescue Services truck shortly before midnight.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told police the man had a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Police say officers later found the damaged vehicle in the open garage of a home in Cavanagh.<\/p>\n<p>Officers entered the home with a warrant, ASIRT says, and were \u201cimmediately met by a man near the doorway who was advancing quickly towards them and appeared to be carrying weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when the shooting happened, according to ASIRT.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Edmonton as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=edmonton.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778178555_824_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Edmonton police officer fatally shot a man who may have been carrying weapons inside a home in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-786954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786954","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=786954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}