Man shot by police, Waterloo officer stabbed in Cambridge

WATCH ABOVE: The province’s Special Investigations Unit has been called in to probe the incident.

CAMBRIDGE, Ont. – A Waterloo Region police officer is in hospital with stab wounds along with a man who was shot by police following a domestic violence incident in Cambridge, Ont.

Police say they were called to a home in a townhouse complex just after midnight Wednesday and became involved in an altercation with a man.

The wounded officer was taken to a Cambridge hospital with non-life threatening stab wounds while the man shot by police was taken to a hospital in Hamilton.

Police also say a woman who was seriously injured prior to police arriving on scene is also in a Hamilton hospital.

No names have yet been released.

One resident living nearby said she heard yelling across the street prior to a gunshot being fired.

“I was just laying in bed and I heard a woman screaming, ‘Please don’t’ and then I heard a loud bang,” said Amber Robertson.

“I jumped out of bed and then I heard another lady’s voice say, ‘Stay with me. Stay with me.’ Then cops started to come in everywhere.”

Robertson said she only heard one gunshot round go off.

“I only heard the one. It was really fast,” she said.

The province’s Special Investigations Unit has been called in to probe the incident. They are brought in whenever police are involved in situations where someone has been killed, seriously injured or sexually assaulted.

With a file from Global News