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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018 | Volume 31 No. 75
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The Rocky Mountain Rangers held a change-of-command ceremony on Saturday at Sandman Centre. Maj. Amadeo Vecchio (left) is the incoming commander, succeeding Lt.-Col. Norman Dionne. Vecchio is now in command of 126 soldiers in Kamloops and Prince George, with the Tournament Capital contingent based in the JR Vicars Armoury on McGill Road. The Rangers are a primary reserve infantry regiment of the Canadian army.
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tant to discuss two Kamloops Mounties identified as IIO subject officers, believed to have been directly involved in the actions that killed the deceased. MacDonald said subject officers are afforded the same constitutional rights as accused criminals and are not bound to co-operate with investigators. “I don’t really want to speak about what the subject officers have done to this point,” he said. “Like I said, they are not under any obligation to speak to us.” MacDonald said the IIO’s investigation is progressing well. “We have gathered information from many witnesses to this point in time,” he said. “We’ve also gathered a good deal of other information, such as radio transmissions and vehicle information from the RCMP. We have some video from overhead and it’s ongoing.” At the conclusion of an IIO investigation, the agency either issues a public report detailing its findings or recommends criminal charges to Crown prosecutors.
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The watchdog agency probing what police say was a deadly shootout last week between Kamloops RCMP and an unidentified man is remaining tight-lipped, refusing to say whether two officers believed to have been involved in the incident are co-operating with investigators. Police said a man was killed on Friday during an exchange of gunfire with officers near the top of Rose Hill, about four kilometres south of the residential subdivision. “No officers, nor any other members of the public, were injured,” an RCMP statement stated, noting the investigation had been handed over to the Independent Investigations Office (IIO), the watchdog agency tasked with looking into deadly and violent situations involving police in B.C. Rose Hill residents had previously taken to social media to report more than a dozen police cars racing through their usually quiet neighbourhood. “Neighbours were a little bit
concerned, but once they realized it wasn’t within the neighbourhood itself, they all sort of calmed down,” said Andrew Karpiak, president of the local neighbourhood association. “When you’ve effectively got one way in and there’s 15 squad cars racing up the mountain, it rattles a lot of people.” Speaking to KTW on Tuesday, IIO spokesman Ron MacDonald said he could not provide any information about the deceased’s identity, his manner of death or any weapons he may have had with him at the time of the incident. “Those are, in fact, the key questions our investigators must answer,” MacDonald said. “While we try to disclose facts about a case at the outset so people can have an idea of what happened, the key questions that go to the reasons for what occurred we will always hold off on until we’ve concluded our investigation.” MacDonald said IIO investigators concluded their search of the scene on Monday and are continuing to conduct interviews with witnesses, both police and civilian. But MacDonald was reluc-