Steven Reichert was one of six officers injured as brothers aimed to kill police in 2022 incident
As he laid in a pool blood in the back of the a covert police van, Steven Reichert had been shot multiple times and knew bullets were still whizzing just outside the vehicle, but in that moment he didn't know if they were being fired by his fellow officers or two heavily armed brothers.
The GVERT team was providing assistance to another police team in downtown Victoria when word came in about a bank incident involving two suspects who were donning balaclavas and armed with rifles. The team of six GVERT members were at the bank within minutes and set up just north of the business so their covert van would be out of sight.
“Suddenly I find myself on my back – I’m in the back of the van – and things have gone sideways very quickly,” the Saanich constable said. Reichert took the opportunity to cinch a tourniquet around his leg to stop the bleeding as he hoped that would allow him to get an injured teammate out of the van. He had no situational awareness about what was going on in that moment, he just knew bullets were still flying. But then he felt a shift where things got quiet and the gunfire sounded as if it had ceased.
The SKS semi-automatic rifle used by the brothers remains widely available in Canada and didn't face further restrictions despite heightened federal gun legislation in recent years.
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