17-year-old dead after police shooting at Ste. Adele high school

MONTREAL – A 17-year-old boy is dead after being shot by police near a high school in Ste. Adele, about an hour north of Montreal in the Laurentides.

According to Montreal police constable Danny Richer, police received a report of a stolen car at around 1 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon.

Police found the stolen vehicle with the driver in the parking lot of the École secondaire Augustin-Norbert-Morin, where a shot or shots were fired and the teen was injured.

“Police officers shot at least one time toward the suspect he was hit in the upper body,” Richer said.

He was transferred to hospital, where he later died.

Authorities said that the teen tried to run over a Quebec provincial police officer with the car, which led to the fatal shooting.

Sûreté du Québec spokesperson Gino Paré said that the incident was now under an independent investigation by Montreal police.

It is standard protocol that another force takes over the investigation when a shooting takes place which involves a police officer.

A school board official confirmed Wednesday that no students at École secondaire Augustin-Norbert-Morin had been involved or injured in the incident.

Marie-Josée Lorion, a spokesperson for the Commission scolaire des Laurentides, told Global News that the shooting was a police operation that took place close to the school.