The shooting happened after police responded to a 911 call from a sporting-goods store where a man was reported to have stolen knives and a pellet pistol.
A Campbell River RCMP officer who shot and killed a man who was pointing a pellet gun at him last year was justified in his actions, “and in fact, he exercised considerable restraint,” the Independent Investigations Office of B.C. has concluded.
In the 911 call, which came in at 11:33 a.m., the caller tells police there is a robbery in progress where the store manager was told: “You are going to die.”A suspect matching the description provided to police was found in a motel parking lot, and what followed was captured by the motel’s security cameras and police dashcams.
She said she heard a shot after the officer who had previously fired at the suspect yelled at him to drop the gun. It was then determined the man had been hit by a bullet that passed through his belt and the waistband of his pants, and the wound had closed and yielded limited blood.
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