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 realistic-looking 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.
Its investigation into the Campbell River death included input from nine civilian witnesses, four first responders and two police officers, along with audio recordings of the 911 call, dashcam video from police vehicles and a forensic firearms report. The first officer who drove at the suspect then saw the suspect on the ground with what looked to be a semi-automatic pistol in his hand and pointed at officers as they approached.
When an officer went to formally arrest the man, however, he was found to be unresponsive. CPR was started and the man was transferred to an ambulance to be taken to hospital, where he was declared dead, the decision said. Since the 911 caller had said the pellet pistol was still in its packaging, the weapon being pointed “would have appeared exactly like a full-power firearm,” the decision said.
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