{"id":836374,"date":"2026-07-30T17:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/836374\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:49:09","slug":"quebec-man-charged-with-sons-death-shot-during-arrest-bei-investigating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/836374\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec man charged with son&#8217;s death shot during arrest, BEI investigating"},"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>Quebec&#8217;s police watchdog has confirmed that the man accused of killing his teen son was shot by police during his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest put an end to a four-day manhunt that followed the teen&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Philippe Benoit was found Wednesday afternoon in a wooded area near Lac-aux-Sables in the Mauricie region, about 50 kilometres north of Shawinigan where the accused and the victim lived.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the arrest was announced, a spokesperson for the S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec (SQ) told CBC &#8220;police officers had to use force to subdue him.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>The police watchdog initially said that preliminary information suggests a person suffered gunshot wounds, wiithout specifying who.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The person was reportedly hit by at least one police shot&#8221; and is in stable condition, the BEI wrote. <\/p>\n<p>The BEI says six investigators have been tasked with looking into what happened leading up to Benoit being shot.<\/p>\n<p>Benoit was airlifted to a nearby hospital around 5 p.m. on Wednesday. He is expected to appear in court Thursday afternoon.<\/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":836375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-836374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836374","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=836374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}