Close X
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
ADVT 
National

Man Fatally Shot By Vancouver Police In Robbery; Officer, Canadian Tire Store Worker Stabbed

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 11 Nov, 2016 10:14 AM
    VANCOUVER — A man was fatally shot by Vancouver police Thursday afternoon after a police spokesman says he confronted officers when they were called to a robbery in progress at a Canadian Tire store.
     
    Sgt. Brian Montague said a police officer was stabbed by the suspect and an employee of the store was also stabbed during the incident. They were listed in stable condition in hospital and Montague said both were expected to survive.
     
    Police were called to the store near Grandview Highway and Rupert Street in east Vancouver shortly after 3 p.m. when they confronted the suspect as he ran from the Canadian Tire, he said.
     
    The officer, who was stabbed multiple times, has been with the department for five years, he added.
     
    Montague said the suspect died at the scene.
     
    "When we hear that employees have been injured in that robbery, we want to be careful about how we proceed but we also want to make sure that we don't have someone going on some sort of a rampage inside the store," he said.
     
    "So as our officers went to go in to make sure everyone was OK, our suspect was coming out."
     

    He said it's unclear whether one or multiple officers fired shots at the suspect and the Independent Investigations Office will help determine that. The provincial police watchdog investigates when there has been a death or serious harm suffered in cases involving police to determine whether an officer may have committed an offence.
     
    Katarina Mitchell, 24, said she was in the upstairs parking lot of the Canadian Tire when she saw employees and customers running out of the store. Moments later, she said she heard sirens and police cars came flying into the lot.
     
    Several officers got out of the cars carrying guns just before a large man wearing a green jacket came out of Canadian Tire holding what appeared to be a rifle and a spray can, she said.
     
    The man sprayed something at the first officer who approached and a substance appeared to get in his eyes, she said, adding that a second officer then came after the man from behind and the two started "wrestling" on the ground.
     
     
    "Then you hear shots go off, bang, bang, bang," Mitchell said. "The guy is just dead on the ground there, not moving."
     
    Mitchell said about 15 police cars responded as well as several ambulances and fire trucks.
     
    "It's kind of scary," she said. "Especially living in this area, that something like this can happen so close to home. … It's lucky that more people didn't get hurt in this horrible situation."
     
    Chief Adam Palmer has visited the officer and his wife in hospital to offer support, said Montague.
     
    Montague didn't have any information about the suspect.
     
    "We don't know who he is," he said.
     
    He said police were following up unconfirmed reports of a second suspect. Officers entered the store to search for other suspects or victims but found none.
     
    Montague said the police department has counselling support for officers who are injured on the job. In his two decades as a police officer, he said he has been stabbed and shot at.
     
    "It's an unfortunate reality of our job."

    MORE National ARTICLES

    Meeting Strengthens India-B.C. Partnerships

    Meeting Strengthens India-B.C. Partnerships
    Meeting topics included: the recent approval by the Canadian federal government of the Pacific North West LNG project; the successful issuance of B.C.’s Indian Rupee (INR) bond; and future opportunities to expand two-way trade and investment.

    Meeting Strengthens India-B.C. Partnerships

    Critics Call For More Social Housing As Vancouver Set To Dismantle Homeless Camp

    Critics Call For More Social Housing As Vancouver Set To Dismantle Homeless Camp
    VANCOUVER — The City of Vancouver says outreach workers are helping about two dozen people move into a shelter after the homeless camp they were staying at was deemed unsafe.

    Critics Call For More Social Housing As Vancouver Set To Dismantle Homeless Camp

    SPCA Investigates Following Death Of Controversial Sturgeon At Tsawwassen Mills Mall

    SPCA Investigates Following Death Of Controversial Sturgeon At Tsawwassen Mills Mall
    VANCOUVER — The B.C. SPCA says it has launched an investigation into the death of a sturgeon that was controversially being kept at a new mega mall in Tsawwassen, B.C.

    SPCA Investigates Following Death Of Controversial Sturgeon At Tsawwassen Mills Mall

    Black Bear With A Taste For Tuna Damages SUV In Southeastern B.C.

      RCMP say the victim left his sandwich in his SUV in the southeastern B.C., community.

    Black Bear With A Taste For Tuna Damages SUV In Southeastern B.C.

    CMHC Raises Its Overall Risk Rating For National Housing Market To Strong

    CMHC Raises Its Overall Risk Rating For National Housing Market To Strong
    Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. increased its risk rating for the national housing market on Wednesday to strong, from a moderate rating that it gave in July.

    CMHC Raises Its Overall Risk Rating For National Housing Market To Strong

    CN Rail Working To Reopen Tracks Near Yale, B.C., After Derailment

    CN Rail Working To Reopen Tracks Near Yale, B.C., After Derailment
    YALE, B.C. — Crews with CN Rail have made good progress repairing tracks following a derailment in British Columbia's Fraser Canyon.

    CN Rail Working To Reopen Tracks Near Yale, B.C., After Derailment