A 25-year-old Coquitlam, B.C., man has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of RCMP officer Rick O'Brien.
Police allege Nicholas Bellemare fatally shot the Ridge Meadows RCMP constable on Friday in Coquitlam during a drug investigation originating in Maple Ridge, B.C.
O'Brien died at the scene, while the two other wounded officers were treated at hospital and have since been released. O'Brien's death in Coquitlam comes less than a year after another RCMP officer, Const. Shaelyn Yang, was stabbed to death while accompanying a city worker to a campsite used by homeless residents in a Burnaby, B.C.Kevin Halwa, chair of the National Police Federation's Benevolent Foundation, has said calling the mood in the law enforcement community sombre "would be an understatement.
A GoFundMe campaign for O'Brien's family has raised more than $55,000 since launch, surpassing its original goal of raising $50,000.
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