B.C.’s police watchdog is investigating after one man died at a home in a residential area in Williams Lake.
Heavily armed emergency response officers were deployed to a small apartment complex in the area of Smedley Street and 10 Avenue on Sunday morning.
Mounties responded to a report of a man with a weapon “contemplating self-harm,” police said in a news release. Officers set up a perimeter and a negotiator tried to contact the man.
“Around 6:30 a.m., RCMP arrived and quickly secured the area and asking all surrounding residents to head to their basements,” Coun. Scott Nelson told Global News.
“From about 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., police were using stun bombs, trying to secure the building and get people to come out. At around 12, somebody came out and things went quiet.”
Police said the emergency response team went into the home around 12:30 p.m. and found the man dead with what appeared to be a self-inflicted injury.
The Independent Investigations Office investigates incidents of serious harm or death involving police in B.C.
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