NO CHARGES AGAINST ALBERTA MOUNTIE IN SHOOTING DEATH: POLICE WATCHDOG
EDMONTON — Alberta’s police watchdog says a Mountie was justified in the 2017 shooting death of a man armed with a homemade shotgun. The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team says in a release that two officers noticed the man sleeping in a parked SUV outside a known drug house in Gleichen, southeast of Calgary. The agency says the man had the shotgun between his legs and, when he woke up swearing, he moved to grab the weapon. It says the officers told the man he was under arrest and yelled at him to show his hands but he continued to reach for the gun. An officer standing near the driver’s side of the vehicle fired his gun at the man, and he died of multiple gunshot wounds. ASIRT says the man was later identified as a 26-year-old resident of Morley, who had been prohibited from possessing firearms as a result of a criminal conviction. The Canadian Press Updated: January 14, 2020