A Lake Country Mountie was injured on Sunday, when a distraught man rammed the police car he was in to evade police.
RCMP received a call shortly before 1 p.m. that a man was yelling and acting erratically outside of his home on Beaver Lake Road in Kelowna.
Get breaking National news
Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.
By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.
Lake Country RCMP were on scene to assist Kelowna RCMP, in an attempt to de-escalate the situation.
The distraught man got into his car and rammed one of the police vehicles twice before fleeing.
The 66-year-old man was apprehended by police under the Mental Health Act when he returned home.
The Lake Country RCMP officer whose police vehicle was rammed is recovering from non-life threatening injuries.
Comments
Comments closed.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.
Please see our Commenting Policy for more.