EDMONTON — Alberta’s police watchdog says a suspect in an alleged hostage-taking was alone when he was fatally shot by officers during a weekend standoff at an oilfield battery site.
RCMP said Saturday that they were called about a suspect who allegedly had a hostage in a rural area 10 kilometres west of Sunchild and O’Chiese First Nation, Alta.
Police said they believed the man was armed, and while on scene, learned that he was a suspect in a recent suspicious death north of Edmonton’s downtown.
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The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team says in a news release that Mounties were originally investigating an armed carjacking in Parkland County, and that the suspect repeatedly contacted police and told them he was armed and had a hostage.
ASIRT says police found the stolen truck and used a dog to track the 39-year-old man to a building at an oilfield battery site, and officers tried to convince him to surrender.
The release says the man stepped outside of the building and “initiated a confrontation” with police, which prompted one officer to fire a weapon that uses “less-lethal rounds,” and other officers then fatally shot the man with their service weapons.
