Alberta Mounties fire guns during roadside stop for second time in under a week
WETASKIWIN, Alta. – Mounties in Alberta have shot and killed a man.
The latest incident happened Saturday night when police say an officer with the Wetaskiwin RCMP detachment pulled over a vehicle near Ma Me O Beach.
RCMP say there was an altercation and the officer shot two men with his sidearm.
A 30-year-old man from Pigeon Lake, Alta., died and a 41-year-old man, also from Pigeon Lake, was transported to hospital in Edmonton.
It’s the second police shooting in Alberta this week.
On Thursday, RCMP in Grande Cache, Alta., shot and wounded a man who has since been identified by family as Curtis Hallock, a regular character on the reality TV show “Mantracker.”
The Alberta’s police watchdog, the Serious Incident Response Team, is investigating both shootings.
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