B.C.’s police watchdog is investigating the demise of a girl who was shot by the RCMP after allegedly barricading herself in a room with a toddler early Thursday morning.
The incident unfolded at a house on 180A Road in Surrey, the place officers responded to a report of a disturbance round 4:40 a.m.
In a information launch, a spokesperson for the B.C. RCMP stated officers arrived to study the girl was “reportedly holding a weapon” subsequent to the kid.
“Whereas interacting with the girl, an officer fired their weapon, putting her,” Workers Sgt. Kris Clark stated, within the launch. “There have been no reported accidents to the kid.”
Paramedics have been already on scene previous to the capturing, and tried to offer emergency medical care to the girl earlier than she died on the property, authorities stated.
The RCMP didn’t specify whether or not officers recovered a weapon from the house.
Requested whether or not the toddler was nonetheless within the room when the officer opened fireplace, Clark instructed CTV Information he couldn’t present any additional particulars whereas the incident is beneath investigation by the Unbiased Investigations Workplace.
In an e mail, an IIO spokesperson stated she couldn’t verify whether or not the kid witnessed the capturing both, because the investigation is in its “very early levels.”
Outdoors the house on Thursday afternoon, Gaston Ntabaza instructed CTV Information the girl who was shot was a buddy of his from church.
“We simply need justice to be accomplished accordingly,” stated Ntabaza. “We’d hope (when) somebody calls the police, that they’ve all of the instruments to de-escalate the scenario.”
In a separate information launch, the IIO stated its preliminary examine steps will contain gathering particulars about what occurred to find out “if the pressure utilized by police was needed, cheap and proportionate within the circumstances.”
The watchdog is tasked with investigating all officer-involved incidents that lead to demise or severe hurt, whether or not or not there may be any allegation of wrongdoing on the a part of police.
With recordsdata from CTV Information Vancouver’s Ben Nesbit
