RCMP shoot and kill man in rural Alberta
Posted Jul 19, 2012 2:48 pm.
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The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team is probing a deadly police shooting east of Edmonton.
RCMP officers shot and killed a 43-year-old man Wednesday night after getting called to a rural home northeast of the town of Vegreville.
The initial call was for a man who was apparently armed with a gun with at least three family members at the home.
The RCMP Emergency Response Team was called, but before it got there a uniformed officer opened fire.
ASIRT says a shotgun was recovered at the scene.
This is the second deadly police shooting in Alberta this week. Sunday night in Lethbridge, officers shot and killed a man.
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