Manitoba RCMP said they found a man dead in his home east of Anola, Manitoba Saturday.
Officers said on Saturday they received a report of a man with firearms uttering threats to his family and to police.
RCMP said he locked himself alone in his home east of Anola on Friday and the 45-year-old was found dead in his home Saturday.
Oakbank RCMP and the RCMP Emergency Response Team staged outside his house and secured the area from Friday evening until Saturday morning.
Eric Metrow was heading home around 9 p.m. when he saw the busy presence ahead. He said someone shone a flashlight in his eyes, and he saw an officer in full camouflage holding an assault rifle.
He said he’s still shocked by the scene he drove up to so close to his home on Friday night.
“It was kind of scary driving up to a guy who was holding an assault rifle and not knowing what was going on,” Metrow said.
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While he didn’t know exactly what was unfolding so close to his home five kilometers east of Anola, Man., he said he figured it must have been something major because a one mile stretch of highway 15, by Provincial Road 302, was completely closed down from around 9 p.m. Friday to 10 a.m. Saturday.
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He was asked to find an alternate route to go home and he ended up on nearby Airport Road, where he spotted four RCMP vehicles and what looked like a SWAT vehicle on the side of the road.
After finally making it home, he tried to return to the scene several times to try and piece together what happened in the usually quiet area.
“It’s kind of surprising to see how much firepower that we saw when we drove by the SWAT vehicles,” said Metrow.
He said the area doesn’t normally see highways being shut down unless it’s due to a bad crash or inclement weather.
He returned to the scene after the road was reopened at 10 a.m. Saturday, and said he did see RCMP and police vehicles parked in one driveway in the area that was originally blocked off.
RCMP confirms the investigation in to the 45-year-old’s death is on-going and has been turned over to the Independent Investigations Unit of Manitoba.
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