An ASIRT investigation found that RCMP officers' actions were proportionate and reasonable when they fatally shot a man on Highway II near Leduc on May 6, 2020.
into an RCMP shooting on Highway 2 near Leduc, Alta., in May 2020 that left a 27-year-old man dead found no reasonable grounds that an offence was committed.involved five officers who fired their service weapons and one male suspect.
A woman, who police said was not related to the incident, was shot. She was taken to hospital with serious injuries.Police said a man involved in the incident drove away from the scene and headed north on the QEII.At 9:19 a.m., an officer saw the suspect vehicle on the highway near Ponoka and began to follow in an unmarked police vehicle.
The driver tried to turn at the overpass to Leduc “but had difficulties controlling his vehicle,” and “came to a stop near the exist ramp lane at 9:36 a.m.,” ASIRT explained.There was one officer stopped in front of him and several others across from them on the other side of the highway.The man immediately started to get out of his vehicle and was holding a long gun, the ASIRT report said.Police vehicle photo shows man pointing firearm at RCMP on May 6, 2020 near Leduc.
Evidence from the scene included three shotgun shell cases near the BMW. ASIRT believes the five RCMP officers fired their weapons twice, once, six times, seven times and twice.One of the RCMP officers’ vehicles after the exchange with a man on May 6, 2020, near Leduc.An autopsy on the 27-year-old man found seven gunshot wounds — on his neck, chest, left side, back, pubis, right hand and right thigh. Toxicology showed he had consumed cocaine, marijuana and alcohol.
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