The body was found in a parked vehicle that police had been seeking in connection with an armed robbery at a business north of Duncan
B.C.’s Independent Investigations Office has been notified after a man was found Tuesday afternoon near Lake Cowichan following an armed robbery.
B.C. RCMP said the case began when the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP detachment was notified about 2:30 p.m. regarding an armed robbery at a business north of Duncan.The Island District Emergency Response Team was called in and found the vehicle at 4 p.m. parked east of Lake Cowichan. They approached the vehicle and found a man dead from what appeared to be self-inflicted wounds.
The Independent Investigations Office is a civilian-oversight agency that probes police-related incidents resulting in serious harm or death, and will determine what part, if any, police action or lack of action had in the incident.
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