{"id":805739,"date":"2026-07-16T13:49:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/805739\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T13:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:49:22","slug":"man-dies-after-officer-involved-shooting-in-southern-alberta-rcmp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/805739\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after officer-involved shooting in southern Alberta: RCMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta RCMP say a man was killed Wednesday afternoon in an officer-involved shooting in Brooks, located about 190 kilometres east of Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>Officers had been trying to arrest a wanted man in the town&#8217;s Greenbrook neighbourhood at about 4 p.m. when he attempted to flee, according to a Wednesday evening RCMP media release.<\/p>\n<p>During a confrontation with police, the man &#8220;produced a weapon,&#8221; after which an officer fired their gun, RCMP said.<\/p>\n<p>The man died of his injuries despite police efforts to save his life. No officers were injured, RCMP said.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta&#8217;s police watchdog, the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT), is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to ASIRT&#8217;s independent investigation, the RCMP is conducting an internal review of the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-805739","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\/805739","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=805739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}