By Canadian Press

FATAL SHOOTING INVESTIGATION

Three Alberta Mounties cleared in fatal shooting of Sherwood Park man

Jul 30, 2020 | 6:34 AM

EDMONTON- Alberta’s police watchdog has cleared three Mounties who fatally shot a man armed with a pistol that turned out to be a pellet gun.

Strathcona County RCMP officers fired on the 40-year-old Sherwood Park man after he pointed the gun at them on March 4, 2018.

He had called 911 saying he was having hallucinations and that he had stabbed himself in the neck multiple times.

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team says the officers yelled at the man to drop the weapon, but when he began to advance on them and when he raised the gun to nearly chest level, they shot him.

Investigators say the officers were dealing with an armed man who was not complying with repeated commands.

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ASIRT Executive Director Susan Hughson says the evidence does not provide reasonable grounds, nor even reasonable suspicion, to believe that any of the three officers committed a Criminal Code offence.

(CTV Edmonton)