SB Deerfoot Incident at McKenzie

[Acey]

Open as of 3:30 pm Saturday

The southbound lanes of Deerfoot Trail at McKenzie Lake Blvd. remained closed Saturday morning as the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team investigated an officer-involved shooting that left one man dead and a woman in critical condition.

CPS say it might be closed for most of the morning as the cold is hampering their investigation into last night's shooting.

http://globalnews.ca/news/1180856/on...eerfoot-trail/

[undercoverbrother]

Do you have a link to that shooting?

[ken0042]

One dead, one critical after shots fired in police incident on Deerfoot Trail

[Acey]

I'm on my phone, passenger in a vehicle stuck in the mess down here. Stoney Trail a good alternative.

[Acey]

All rumours at this point, but I guess they got a shots fired call, there was a high speed chase on Deerfoot, he stopped around McKenzie Lake Blvd and as police approached he stuck his hand out the window holding a gun and the officers opened fire killing him and critically injuring his passenger.

[psicodude]

The family and I were driving home from the Hitmen game last night and drove up to the scene probably a minute or two after it happened. We just thought it was an accident until the 40 or so police cruisers arrived from every direction. They were flying up Deerfoot in the wrong direction and driving across the grass. The 4 ambulances showed up and it was obvious this wasn't an accident. After a few minutes, they directed us to drive up the on-ramp from McKenzie to Deerfoot the wrong way to get off Deerfoot. Crazy stuff.

[Acey]

Crazy indeed. My friend says a CPS Crown Vic passed them going well over 160 on the Calf Robe bridge and almost lost it going around the curve. They exited Glenmore out of legitimate concern they'd get hit by a responding car.

Pretty sure Deerfoot is still closed, I'll post again when it is open.

[Acey]

Still closed.



Looked like this last night:

[Kybosh]

I drove past it going northbound around 1am last night. Didn't know what had happened at the time but it was pretty surreal.

[Joborule]

Saw driving south when dropping a friend off at 11:30. Was wonder what happened.

[Igotnothing]

Still closed. Still looks like the picture posted earlier.

[Acey]

Deerfoot now open both ways.

[calgarywinning]

5 stars on GTA. Crazy stuff. Will be interesting to find out the circumstances.

[Acey]

CPS presser underway, these are tweets from 660 and 770 News:

"Police say 2 suspects in last night’s officer involved shooting were very well known to police, drove a truck the wrong way on Deerfoot. The officers fired their service weapons after a woman showed signs of aggression. Calgary Police Chief Rick Hanson believes yesterday's deadly shooting was justified"

[Acey]

Holy crap, these people are serious criminals:

CPS Police Chief Rick Hanson says the two occupants of a stolen Ford F350, involved in Friday evening’s fatal shooting on Deerfoot Trail, had previous dealings with members of the police force.

Police Chief Hanson says the events of Friday night began with an investigation into reports a member of the public had hear gun shots in the community of Copperfield.
“While circulating the area, at approximately 9:45 p.m., they (CPS members) were alerted to a suspicious vehicle which was subsequently confirmed as being stolen,” said Police Chief Hanson. “The vehicle fled the scene and was being driven in an extremely dangerous and erratic manner, putting the public and officers at risk. We are aware of at least two hit-and-run collisions with citizens initiated by the F350 before it was stopped.”

Police vehicles surround a stolen Ford F350 pickup truck during an investigation into Friday's fatal shooting on Deerfoot Trail near McKenzie Lake Blvd. “The vehicle was also driving on sidewalks and pathways during the incident.” The ordeal increased in danger when the truck joined high speed traffic on Deerfoot Trail.

“Once southbound on Deerfoot Trail, the vehicle attempted to cross a GM barrier to enter the northbound lanes and was unsuccessful. The vehicle then turned and began travelling northbound in the southbound lanes of Deerfoot Trail. At that time, our officers made the decision that the vehicle had to be stopped for the safety of the pubic and the vehicle was boxed in at Deerfoot Trail and McKenzie Lake Blvd.”

“One of the officers immediately exited his vehicle to make an arrest and began challenging the driver. Instead of surrendering, the driver accelerated at our member and began ramming police vehicles in an attempt to escape, putting the officer at risk.”
“Both occupants of the vehicle took actions that are officers clearly saw as being life threatening. It was at that point in time the determination was made to use deadly force.”

Two CPS members, experienced officers from the tactical section, fired their weapons into the cab of the truck. Hanson says the officers have more than thirty years of police experience combined and one of the officers has been involved in a previous shooting.

Police Chief Hanson says the female passenger of the stolen vehicle was not hit by stray bullets, but her actions provoked the CPS members to fire at her. “She took actions that were clearly a risk to our officers and the officers responded.”

Due to the ongoing ASIRT investigation, the identities of the stolen vehicle suspects can not be released but Hanson says the pair had been involved in a similar incident outside of Calgary.

“Both individuals were out on conditions of non-association, they weren’t supposed to be even in a vehicle, and they’re associated to a similar event in another jurisdiction where a vehicle was used as a weapon and charges were laid to that effect. These individuals have been involved in a great deal of criminal activity.”

Hanson says the two CPS members have been relieved from duty for thirty days, a practice which is standard policy during ASIRT investigations.

http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/deerfoot-t...lice-1.1709986

[puckluck2]

Good riddance.

[llwhiteoutll]

Too bad the passenger is going to keep costing the system money.

Glad no cops were hurt.

Originally Posted by calgarywinning

5 stars on GTA. Crazy stuff.

Probably only worth two stars, he didn't shoot any of the cops.

[T@T]

Originally Posted by Acey

Crazy indeed. My friend says a CPS Crown Vic passed them going well over 160 on the Calf Robe bridge and almost lost it going around the curve. They exited Glenmore out of legitimate concern they'd get hit by a responding car.

Pretty sure Deerfoot is still closed, I'll post again when it is open.

Someone should tell the cops that even high performance police tires loose grip in -30 weather. Going that fast in traffic is just stupid at the best of times.

[Otto-matic]

http://metronews.ca/news/calgary/958...he-way-he-did/

Typical comments

But friends still in shock over the shooting were quick to describe Roy as a kind and caring individual with a good head on his shoulders.

“He was an amazing young man — he didn’t deserve to die the way he did,” said Tammi Anakaer, who claims to have aided Roy a great deal when he was young.

[Northendzone]

The metro article quotes anakear as saying everyone makes mistakes........

Good grief!!!

Always find it interesting though how many cops need to be involved in an incident like this. I'll bet at one time there must have been 30 or some of them sitting in their cruisers working on the case.....