{"id":837732,"date":"2026-07-31T08:02:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T08:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/837732\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T08:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T08:02:54","slug":"asirt-investigating-after-police-shoot-suspect-in-southwest-calgary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/837732\/","title":{"rendered":"ASIRT investigating after police shoot suspect in southwest Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Calgary<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An investigation is underway by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) following a shooting this morning in Bridlewood in southwest Calgary involving a police officer.<\/p>\n<p>Man taken to hospital following confrontation Thursday morning<\/p>\n<p>CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Jul 30, 2026 1:18 PM EDT | Last Updated: July 30<\/p>\n<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><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"A photo of a piece of paper that says ASIRT.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785484974_816_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>ASIRT is investigating after a man was taken to hospital following a confrontation with police. (ASIRT)<\/p>\n<p>An investigation is underway by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) following a shooting Thursday morning in Bridlewood in southwest Calgary involving a police officer.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened after police responded to a call of a disturbance and a man with a weapon at the 1000 block of Bridlemeadows Manor S.W.<\/p>\n<p>As police arrived the man had entered a residence, after which officers engaged with him and tried to take him into custody.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two hours after the original call, which was made at roughly 1 a.m., the man came outside the residence and a confrontation occurred that resulted in one officer firing their weapon. <\/p>\n<p>The suspect was taken to hospital in critical condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>AISRT was called and began an investigation. There are no further details available at this time. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corrections and clarifications<\/a>\u00b7<a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/email-cbc-contact-phone-tips-news-story-1.6466536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submit a news tip<\/a>\u00b7Report error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calgary An investigation is underway by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) following a shooting this morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-837732","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\/837732","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=837732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}