The province’s police watch dog is hoping to speak to anyone who might have witnessed a police involved shooting in the Shuswap last Friday. Investigators from the Independent Investigations Office of B.C. (IIO) were dispatched to the region last weekend. Around 5:00 p.m. Friday officers were called in to deal with a reported armed robbery at a Sicamous gas station. The IIO says the information they have is that a man took off from that scene in a vehicle. The vehicle was later found in the Canoe area.
The IIO says it is looking at two shooting scenes and they are investigating two officers. The first location is near Bernie Rd. and Highway 1. The man is not believed to have been hit at this location. The second shooting site is at a barn on private property in a rural area near Canoe. The IIO believes the man was only hit at this second location. His injuries were not fatal.
“He received some very serious injuries so he will be receiving some degree of medical care for a period of time,” says IIO spokesperson Kellie Kilpatrick.
The IIO says its investigators returned from the area Tuesday night.
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The IIO is mandated to investigate whenever police are involved in an incident that leads to death or serious harm.
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