Six years after a Mountie shot a suspect in the face west of Red Deer, charges against the now-retired RCMP officer have been laid.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.The incident happened west of Red Deer on the morning of April 6, 2019, when a lone Mountie was sent to investigate reports of a stolen oilfield battery., an officer found a man sleeping in a Ford F-250 pickup truck that had been stolen from Saskatoon almost one week prior.
The officer could see a sledgehammer and a large canister of bear spray on the truck’s front seat and put down a spike belt while awaiting backup.For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.
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