Kamloops RCMP are on scene of what they are calling a “high risk police operation” right now.
Police and emergency vehicles are on scene in the area of the G & M Trailer Park off Shuswap Road.
Police are not divulging too many details at this time but are asking anyone who sees anything suspicious to call Kamloops RCMP.
A witness told CFJC News that she heard gunshots and saw a police vehicle ramming someone that appeared to be trying to escape.
“We watched them all race into the trailer park over there, G&M, and we heard the gunshots,” witness Juli Holloway told CFJC. “Then we saw the (armoured) vehicle go racing down there and crash into a vehicle. It looked like it was stopping them from running away.”
Police now confirm they are looking for an individual with a gun.
Another witness, Dayton Duff, an employee of DSW Builders, was on a work site near the trailer park when he said he witnessed an exchange of gunfire between police and a suspect.
Duff said a green truck pulled into an intersection before a man exited the vehicle and started shooting at police.
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“He… started shooting across the intersection right into everybody that’s around here,” he said.
“I was totally panicked, I didn’t know what to think.”
Duff said he saw a police pull out a gun and then started hearing noises that he “knew exactly” was gunshots.
“Bullets were flying and I wanted to have nothing to do with that,” he said. “Didn’t want to get shot at today so I got down.”
Everyone at his work site did the same.
There was a bullet hole in a siding at the Varsteel warehouse.
They are also requesting that the residents of that trailer park remain inside their residences, with doors locked and to keep themselves safe.
“We are are asking the public not to share any information about specific police activities or locations on social media,” says Cpl. Jodi Shelkie.
Police are also asking everyone to avoid calling 9-1-1 for any updates, or non-emergency reports.
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All students of Skelep School on Kamloops Indian Band Reserve will be leaving the school today at the regular time of 2:40 pm.
Parents are not to go to the school to pick up their children.
Students will be bused away from the school down Shuswap Road to the Lafarge Bridge.
If they wish, parents may pick up their children on the north side of Lafarge Bridge. Should parents choose not to or cannot pick up their children at Lafarge, the children will be bused home as usual. However, due to Highway 5 being closed due to the police emergency happening, the buses could be up to one hour later than usual dropping the children off.
Parents who normally pick their children up from the school but are not able to go to the Lafarge Bridge to get them, school staff will be with the students at all time and will make further arrangements for the students.
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