UPDATE: The Independent Investigations Office (IIO) has been called in after a lengthy police incident in Revelstoke. On Tuesday afternoon, Revelstoke RCMP pulled over a vehicle connected to an ongoing homicide investigation in Calgary.
After a roughly five-hour stand-off, RCMP deployed a noise diversion device to elicit a response from the driver. Shortly after, officers approached the vehicle and located a lone male inside the vehicle with undetermined injuries. No shots were fired by police. B.C. Ambulance, who was staged nearby, provided medical assistance but the man succumbed to his injuries at the scene.
The IIO and the BC Coroners Service are now investigating.
A more than five-hour police standoff in downtown Revelstoke is over and the suspect is dead, despite no shots being fired by RCMP.
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An explosion that was heard in the area of Victoria Rd. around 6 p.m. was, in fact, a noise diversion device that police said was deployed to prompt a response from the suspect.
When police approached the car they had surrounded, RCMP said the lone male had sustained undetermined injuries.
Nearby paramedics tried to provide medical assistance but police said the man succumbed to his injuries.
The incident began shortly before 1:30 p.m. when a vehicle and suspect that matched the description of a man connected to an ongoing homicide investigation in Calgary was stopped by a combination of marked and unmarked police cars in downtown Revelstoke.
Police said the suspect was considered armed and dangerous.
RCMP set up a three block perimeter and nearby businesses were evacuated while efforts were made to communicate with the man behind the wheel for hours.
Calgary police had released a photo of a suspect in a weekend homicide Sunday and police in Revelstoke believed it matched the man’s description.
Mohammadali Darabi was believed to be driving a silver-coloured 2006 Toyota Corolla with Alberta licence plate BKW 1855, which was the vehicle that police stopped Tuesday afternoon in the B.C. town along Highway 1.
The man who died at the standoff has not been positively identified by police as Darabi.
Police said the BC Coroner’s Service is investigating both the dead man’s ID and the cause of death.
The Independent Investigation Office in B.C. (IIO BC) is looking into the Revelstoke incident.
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