UPDATED: An Ontario Provincial Police officer was killed and two others injured when they were ambushed while responding to reports of gunshots in Bourget, Ont., OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique says. ottnews
The shooting happened early Thursday morning in the small community in the municipality of Clarence-Rockland, approximately 50 kilometres east of downtown Ottawa.
The other officer, a 35-year-old man with 10 years of service, has been released and is recovering at home."A 39-year-old male was arrested and was taken into custody without further incident by heroic officers that were responding in aid to their injured colleagues," Carrique said, adding that the individual was not known to police and was uninjured.Sgt.
More than a dozen Ottawa police and OPP vehicles escorted a vehicle carrying Mueller's body from the Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus to the Ottawa Hospital General Campus just before 12 p.m. The coroner's office is located at the General Campus.Flags are flying at half-mast at Rockland City Hall."Waking up to this is not very easy at all," said Veronique Poirier Larabie.
1/3 Shortly after 2:00 am on May 11, 2023, officers from the Russell County OPP Detachment were dispatched to a disturbance at a home on Laval Street in Bourget, where someone had reported hearing a gunshot.Clarence-Rockland Mayor Mario Zanth says he was "saddened and dismayed" to learn of the fatal shooting in Bourget.
Speaking to reporters at Rideau Hall, the prime minister said the federal government is looking for ways to keep police officers safe, adding the deaths of officers in the line of duty "has to stop."
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