NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — A man has died following a shooting involving officers in New Westminster, B.C.
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A news release from New Westminster police says the incident happened just before 10 p.m. Sunday.
Officers were called to a report of a suicidal man, possibly carrying a firearm, at the rear of a Walmart store in the Queensborough neighbourhood.
Shots were fired as officers arrived and the man died of his injuries.
The release does not say who fired the shots, but it says no officers or bystanders were hurt.
Sgt. Jeff Scott says the Independent Investigations Office, the body that investigates all cases in B.C. of police-involved death or serious injury, has been notified and its members are on the case.
