Calgary police say one man is in hospital after an officer-involved shooting in the northeast community of Coventry Hills on Sunday night.
Around 9:45 p.m., a homeowner in the 12100 block of Coventry Hills Way N.E. called Calgary police to report that an “unknown man with a weapon had entered their backyard and was attempting to gain access to their home.”
Police said the family then took shelter inside the home and waited for police to arrive.
Police said despite their de-escalation efforts, two officers fired their guns and the man was taken to hospital in non-life-threatening condition.
A family in the neighbourhood of the shooting said it was a Sunday night they won’t forget.
Devin Wright said he and his wife were upstairs watching television when they heard a knock on their door.
“By the time we came down, there was nobody at the door,” Wright said. “My son was downstairs watching TV as well. He saw someone run away but wasn’t quite sure who it was.”
Wright said he then started to look through his security camera footage.
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“That’s when I saw the guy that was knocking on our door, and he looked like he was kind of scared or paranoid or something.”
That’s when he said he heard the gunshots just a few doors down.
“I have a bunch of cameras so I was searching through trying to find the different angles and then we heard a couple of gunshots, so we looked out the window and there was one police car, maybe two at that time that we heard the gunshots.”
Not much later, Wright noted there was a much larger police presence on his street.
“It was a while later that they took somebody to an ambulance and then it was a while after that the ambulance left.”
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, an independent civilian agency that investigates serious injuries or deaths involving police, has taken over the investigation.
No officers were injured during the incident, according to the news release.
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