The 2022 shooting was investigated after one person was shot and another killed following an arrest warrant being served
The Independent Investigations Office of BC has cleared the officer involved in shooting a man outside Keremeos in 2022.The RCMP had gone to serve arrest warrants for the man and a woman who lived in a blue bus on Crown land on Sept. 13, 2022.
According to the IIO report, the woman, who was shot in the shoulder and survived the incident, described herself and the man as"anarchists," while the police stated they followed a 'freeman on the land ideology' that rejects government and police authority. The man emerged with a pellet gun made to look like a semi-automatic firearm with a detachable magazine, and the woman later confirmed in an interview that the pair wanted police to believe it was a real gun.
"AP2 described her thinking to IIO investigators that it was her intention 'to get shot, to be killed, not to live.' She said it went against her ideology to kill herself, 'so if I'm going to die, somebody has to kill me,'" reads the report.
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