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Police nab suspect after shootout in Cranbrook Independent Investigations Office arrives in Cranbrook Sal ly MacDona l d Townsman Staff
A suspect is in hospital after a police shootout in Cranbrook on Tuesday night. At around 10:30 p.m., an RCMP officer tried to stop a vehicle that was suspected to have been carjacked near Creston earlier in the day. A car chase ensued, ending when the suspect reached a dead end at the top of Victoria Avenue, beside the College of the Rockies Gold Creek campus. Nearby residents reported hearing rapid gun shots, seeing a lone police car then hearing shouting. According to RCMP, during the incident an officer fired his service pistol, hitting the male suspect. The suspect was taken to hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries. A female suspect who was a passenger in the vehicle is also in police custody. The police officer was not hurt. The scene has been secured pending an investigation by the newly formed Independent Investigations Office of B.C. (IIO). Six personnel from the IIO were sent from Surrey to Cranbrook on Wednesday, arriving around 11 a.m. and taking control of the scene. A spokesperson for the IIO was not able to answer questions about the incident on Wednesday morning. “At this point I don’t have that information,” responded Owen Court, Senior Manager, Strategic Projects and Public Engagement. Court explained the process the IIO will now go through in this, their third investigation since it was formed earlier this year.
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Members of the Independent Investigations Office check out the area in Cranbrook where a carjacking suspect was apprehended late Tuesday, Oct. 2. The suspect was taken to hospital after being shot by an RCMP officer.
Carjacking victim tells of roadside nightmare Creston man victim of violent carjacking near Yahk, suspect caught in Cranbrook Lorne Eckersley Creston Valley Advance
Creston’s Alan Armstrong was making a routine run to Cranbrook on Tuesday evening when his trip turned into a nightmare that later ended with a shooting in Cranbrook.
“I was hauling parts on Highway 3 through Goatfell (west of Yahk) when I saw a guy waving me down on the road. He said he had run out of gas and had no money and needed a ride,” Armstrong said on Tuesday morning.
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It was snowing and Armstrong was on a timeline, so he told the man and his girlfriend to get in quickly. “Then I said to him, ‘If you were going to Cranbrook, why was your car faced in the other direction by the road?’ I guess I
shouldn’t have said anything. He grabbed my head and smashed it against the door.” “Pull over, (mother…), or I’ll blow your (expletive) skull open!’ he screamed.
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