{"id":895653,"date":"2026-09-14T17:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/895653\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T17:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:28:10","slug":"man-killed-by-police-after-woman-baby-reportedly-shot-in-west-edmonton-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/895653\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed by police after woman, baby reportedly shot in west Edmonton home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Alberta&#8217;s police watchdog is investigating after Edmonton police officers shot and killed a man armed with a firearm, following reports the man shot a woman and an infant at a home in west Edmonton Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Edmonton Police Service said in a news release Sunday night that the man, 36, died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EPS said that officers responded to a residence in the area of Donsdale Drive and 45th Avenue Sunday morning where it was reported that a man with a firearm entered the home and shot a woman and infant inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to police, when officers arrived at the scene they were &#8220;met by witnesses and the injured parties and immediately began establishing containment of the residence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 36-year-old man then opened the front door armed with a gun and when he did not comply with verbal direction, three officers discharged their firearms, EPS said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The EPS tactical emergency medical support team attempted life-saving measures, but the man died at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An infant and two women were treated and transported to hospital by EMS with non-life-threatening injuries. No police officers were injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Police Review Commission was notified about the incident and has since directed the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) to investigate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alberta&#8217;s police watchdog is investigating after Edmonton police officers shot and killed a man armed with a firearm,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752,17443,201887],"class_list":["post-895653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-police-service","tag-police-officers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895653","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=895653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}