The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team is investigating a fatal shooting by police that happened Wednesday morning in southeast Edmonton.
At about 6 a.m., the Edmonton Police Service, along with RCMP members from the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams’ Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit were executing a search warrant at a home in the area of 15th Avenue and 54th Street.
Police said when officers went into the home to speak with the suspect he stabbed one of the EPS members. Police officers discharged their firearms and the suspect was declared dead at the scene, the EPS said in a news release Wednesday afternoon.
The police officer was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Just before 7 a.m., the Global One News helicopter spotted at least seven police vehicles both in front of and behind the home, which is located in the Sakaw neighbourhood.
Police tape surrounded a duplex in the area and a section of the alleyway behind the home until Wednesday afternoon.
ASIRT, which investigates events when serious injury or death may have been caused by police, would not provide further comment on the investigation on Wednesday.
No further details about the victim have been released.