{"id":798364,"date":"2026-07-13T04:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T04:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798364\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T04:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T04:27:16","slug":"man-dies-while-in-police-custody-in-se-calgary-asirt-investigating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798364\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies while in police custody in SE Calgary; ASIRT investigating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alberta\u2019s police watchdog is investigating after a man died while in police custody in southeast Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary police were called to a home on Abbercove Road SE in the community of Abbeydale around 9:23 p.m. on Saturday regarding a report of a break\u2011and\u2011enter involving a weapon. <\/p>\n<p>The suspect ran off into the neighbourhood before officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Police found the man nearby. When they tried to arrest him, he allegedly fought with officers and refused to follow commands. <\/p>\n<p>At least one officer used a Conductive Energy Weapon. The man went into medical distress moments later and was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>No officers were injured.<\/p>\n<p>ASIRT is now investigating and police say no further information will be released while the investigation is underway.<\/p>\n<p>ASIRT investigates any incident involving police that ends in serious injury or death.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Calgary 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=calgary.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\/06\/1782746833_947_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":"Alberta\u2019s police watchdog is investigating after a man died while in police custody in southeast Calgary. Calgary police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-798364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798364","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=798364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}