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Man In Stable Condition After Being Shot In Head At Quebec Courthouse

The Canadian Press, 01 Feb, 2018 12:08 PM
    MANIWAKI, Que. — An 18-year-old man was in stable condition on Thursday after he was shot in the head following an altercation with a special constable at a courthouse in Maniwaki, Que.
     
    A spokesperson for Quebec's independent police watchdog added the constable, who was also injured, was out of danger.
     
    Esther Tremblay said investigators left the scene at about 5:30 a.m. on Thursday and the investigation was ongoing.
     
    The bureau of independent investigations released a statement Wednesday saying the man managed to seize the constable's baton and allegedly used it to strike the officer over the head at the courthouse, about 130 kilometres north of Ottawa.
     
    The constable then took out a gun and fired it, hitting the 18-year-old at least once in the head.
     
    A woman who said she was the man's mother wrote on Facebook that her son was stable and that the bullet hadn't hit his brain.
     
    "He is strong and he is fighting for his life," she wrote late Wednesday.
     
    On Thursday, she posted photos that showed him in a hospital bed hooked up to tubes and wearing a neck brace, his eyelids purple and swollen.
     
    A bystander uploaded a video to YouTube purporting to show the incident, showing someone in uniform grappling with a man in a room lined with chairs, who is eventually joined by several other uniformed agents.
     
    Moments later, the video shows an officer seemingly pointing a gun and shooting once towards a target that is off-camera, followed by people screaming and crying.

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