MEDICINE HAT, Alta. – A Mountie has been cleared of any wrongdoing in a shooting outside the Redcliff, Alta., RCMP detachment.
Alberta government investigators say a man went to the detachment outside of Medicine Hat last October around 3 a.m. and used an outside phone to call police, claiming he was being followed.
An RCMP officer went to the door but noticed the man had a pistol.
The Mountie shot the man after he refused to drop the weapon and pointed it at the officer.
Paramedics took the man, who was not identified, to hospital for emergency surgery and he survived.
Investigators say the pistol the man pointed at the Mountie was a replica Smith and Wesson BB gun.
(CHQR)
Editor’s note: This article has been corrected to say the shooting took place outside the Redcliff RCMP detachment, which is near Medicine Hat.
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