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Global News
3 days ago
- Global News
Man injured in officer-involved shooting in Calgary's southwest
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) is investigating a Calgary police officer-involved shooting that left one man injured. Calgary police were called to the 300 block of Yorkville Rd. S.W. around 12:55 p.m. Monday for reports of a domestic incident inside a home involving a weapon. A man left the home before police arrived; officers later located him, resulting in a confrontation. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Sign up for daily National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy 'Multiple officers used a variety of use of force tools to diffuse the situation as best they could, including one officer discharging their service firearm,' said CPS Deputy Chief Cliff O'Brien. The suspect was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, while one CPS officer was assessed by EMS at the scene. However, no physical injuries were reported. CPS says there was no danger to the public but is encouraging anyone who may have witnessed the incident to come forward. Story continues below advertisement 'Not just to come forward with information, but because seeing something like this can obviously be traumatic and we care about how they're feeling and we want to be able to help them if we can,' said Deputy Chief O'Brien. ASIRT is called into investigate whenever serious injury or death may have been caused by police. CPS says any further information on the situation will come from that investigation.
Global News
15-07-2025
- Global News
Calgary police officer charged with two counts of 2nd-degree murder
A Calgary Police Service officer has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder after the occupants of a van were shot dead following a slow speed pursuit in 2023. The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) announced the charges in a news release. The shooting took place on the morning of May 29, 2023, after police were called to a report of suspicious persons on private property, who then fled the scene in a stolen cube van. Police said at the time that additional calls were then received about the van driving erratically on Memorial Drive. The van was driving at a slow pace, and police said at the time that, in their words, 'rapidly changing dynamics' led one officer to shoot the occupants of the van. Story continues below advertisement Goodstoney First Nation member Levon Fox, 39, and another non-Indigenous man were killed. View image in full screen Family and friends of Levon Fox, a 39 year old Goodstoney First Nation man, protest his fatal shooting by police May 29, 2023. Sarah Offin, Global News Earlier this year, dozens of people who knew and loved Fox took part in a protest and march calling for a review into police threat assessment training. 2:02 'Too many deaths': Indigenous family calls for review into police training Const. Craig Stothard appeared in court on Tuesday on the two counts and was released on bail with conditions.
Calgary Herald
11-06-2025
- Calgary Herald
Edmonton police officer who repeatedly struck arrestee with baton found not guilty
An Edmonton police officer caught on video hitting a man with his baton has been acquitted of assault. Article content Jurors on Wednesday returned to the courtroom after nine hours of deliberation and found Const. Alexander Doduk not guilty of two counts of assault for his arrest of construction worker Justin LaFrance near the Edmonton courthouse on a snowy morning in 2019. Article content Article content Article content LaFrance claimed Doduk attacked him as he tried to talk to a man suspected of breaking a window, while Doduk said LaFrance resisted arrest, including by grabbing at his duty belt. Article content Article content The chaotic arrest — during which Doduk hit and punched LaFrance before striking him repeatedly with his baton — was captured on security cameras at the nearby Royal Alberta Museum. The cameras did not record sound, leading to competing claims from Crown and defence about what LaFrance and Doduk said before and during the arrest. Article content As a rule, jurors do not explain how they arrived at their verdict, but the outcome indicates they believed the Crown failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Doduk used excessive force. Article content Jurors did not hear other details about Doduk's career — including his role in the death of Steven Nguyen, an unarmed man who died after Doduk shot him four times in 2021. The shooting was investigated by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT), which concluded there were grounds to believe Doduk committed a 'culpable homicide.' The Alberta Crown Prosecution Service, however, declined to proceed with charges, saying it could not prove Doduk's actions were 'unreasonable' under the Criminal Code's police use-of-force provisions. Article content Article content Article content The arrest at the centre of Doduk's trial happened Nov. 26, 2019. LaFrance was part of a crew renovating a building across the street from the Edmonton courthouse and told court he heard glass break during his morning site check. He walked out onto 97 Street, flagged down a passerby and asked if he had seen someone break a window. The passerby pointed to a man in dark clothing on the opposite street corner by the museum, LaFrance testified. Article content Article content LaFrance said he waved to Doduk as the officer drove by in his cruiser, and crossed 97 Street diagonally after Doduk flashed his lights to control traffic. He said he caught up with the alleged vandal and calmly asked him to stop until police arrived. Article content Doduk described a different scene. Driving by on his way to the courthouse, Doduk claimed he heard LaFrance screaming threats at the vandalism suspect, then saw him cross the busy road during rush hour. Doduk said he parked his cruiser and went after the two men, worried they would come to blows.
CTV News
06-06-2025
- CTV News
Police shoot and injure suspect in southeast Calgary
A suspect was shot and injured following a confrontation with police on June 6, 2025. Calgary police shot and injured a suspect in the southeast community of Manchester overnight. At 12:15 a.m., police were on patrol near Deerfoot Trail and 17 Avenue S.E. when they came across a vehicle where a passenger pointed what appeared to be a handgun at them. A police helicopter, a canine unit and other officers were brought in to stop the vehicle in the 600 block of 25 Avenue S.E. Police say one man fled from the vehicle and 'a confrontation occurred,' in which the man was shot. He was taken to hospital in life-threatening condition but has since been upgraded to stable. Two other people inside the vehicle were arrested without incident. No police officers or members of the public were hurt. The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team has been dispatched to investigate the incident, as is protocol.
CBC
13-02-2025
- CBC
RCMP cleared in death of central Alberta man shot at home during mental health crisis
An RCMP officer who fatally shot a Red Deer, Alta., man who was experiencing a mental health crisis in the basement of his home has been cleared of wrongdoing in the death. The 33-year-old, who lived with schizophrenia and substance abuse issues, was killed in 2023 after his family had sought to have him detained under the Mental Health Act. In a report issued Thursday, the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team found that the officer's use of force in the shooting was justified. According to the report, the Mountie was "lawfully placed, and acting properly" in the execution of his duties when he opened fire on the armed man, firing six shots. "There is no evidence to support any belief that any officer engaged in any unlawful or unreasonable conduct that would give rise to an offence," said Michael Ewenson, ASIRT's executive director. "While the death of [affected person] is unfortunate, the force used by [subject officer] was proportionate, necessary and reasonable in all the circumstances." A call for help According to the report, the incident began with a call to 911 on the afternoon of April 13, 2023. The man's father had called Red Deer RCMP for help, reporting that his son had threatened him with a knife. The man's family had obtained a court order earlier that day to have him detained under the Mental Health Act but officers had yet to arrive to execute the order and bring the man to hospital for care. When RCMP responded to the call, they found the man in the basement, laying on his side on a mattress on the basement floor. The father told police that his son had threatened to slash his throat but assured officers upon their arrival at the family home that his son would be apprehended peacefully. According to the ASIRT report, the officers repeatedly attempted to engage with the man and tell him he was being apprehended but he refused to comply and continued to lie on his bed, facing the wall. As the officer approached, the man rolled over, pulled a knife from beneath his body and began to sit up. The officer backed away and pointed his conducted energy weapon at the man, eventually deploying it when the man refused to drop the knife. But the shock from the stun gun did not incapacitate him. The officer then drew his pistol. A second officer deployed his conducted energy weapon and shocked the man but he continued to keep hold of the knife. Death angers family' Then, the man who was on his knees, still holding the knife, lunged toward the first officer. The officer was about two metres away with his back against the wall. He fired his pistol at the man until he collapsed near his feet. "Fearing for his and his fellow officers' safety," the officer shot the man, striking him several times, the report said. Officers administered first aid but the man died of injuries at the scene. An autopsy determined the man died of multiple gunshot wounds. A knife, described by one of the officers as a large butcher knife, was later found discarded on the basement floor. Six pistol casings were recovered from the scene. According to the ASIRT report, the man had been diagnosed with schizophrenia when he was a teenager and had a dependency on narcotics. When speaking with investigators, the man's father expressed anger over his son's death and described the incident as an "assassination." He told investigators that he was there in the basement when his son fell to his knees before being shot — and said he did not hear the officer issue any warnings. ASIRT investigators, however, ruled that officers were justified in their response. The man presented officers "a lethal threat" given his possession of the knife, and his refusal to drop it, despite numerous commands to do so, Ewenson wrote. The officer was acting out his duty to protect himself and others at the scene, Ewenson said. Further, attempts to stop him with less lethal force were ineffective. Under the circumstances as then faced by the officers, no other use of force options was reasonably available for attempted use. "The [officer's] reliance on using his firearm to incapacitate this threat was reasonably necessary," Ewenson said.
