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Alberta’s police watchdog says two Calgary police officers used justified lethal force when they shot and killed a woman in 2018 to protect her teenage son from imminent harm.
But in a lengthy report on the incident in the basement of a home in northeast Calgary three years ago, the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) calls it a “senseless event” with tragic circumstances that spiralled into violence.
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Calgary police justified in killing woman who was stabbing her son, says ASIRT
A tragic fight between a mother and her 17-year-old son that ended with the mother being shot dead by Calgary police was a justified use of force, according to the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT).
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Posted: May 27, 2021 1:02 PM MT | Last Updated: May 27
This is the home on Penbrooke Close in the city s southeast where officers fatally shot a woman as she tried to stab her son in May 2018. (Colin Hall/CBC)
Alberta s police watchdog has determined the actions of Calgary Police Service members were justified in the fatal 2018 shooting of a woman and the officers likely saved the life of the woman s son. Police were called to a home on Penbrooke Close S.E. late in the morning of May 17, 2018 following reports of a break-in in a basement suite. Officers determined the intruders later determined to be a 33-year-old woman and her 17-year-old son had barricaded themselves within the suite. The suspects did not respond to announcements from police. Approximately 45 minutes after the arrival of police, an argument between a male and female could be heard coming from the suite and was followed a short time later by the sound of a woman screaming.
EDMONTON New details are being released about a Monday evening police officer-involved shooting in Red Deer, Alta., that left one man dead, as Alberta s police watchdog investigates the incident. According to a news release from the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT), video evidence from near the scene shows the shooting that killed a 46-year-old man happened after he got out of a vehicle and confronted an RCMP officer while carrying a compound bow. ASIRT says Mounties received several calls around 8:50 p.m. reporting an erratic driver in a grey Volkswagen Jetta. An RCMP officer found the vehicle not long after as it entered a parkade at the Red Deer Regional Hospital.
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