One RCMP officer shot dead, suspect and two officers hurt: B.C. police watchdog

COQUITLAM — British Columbia’s police watchdog says an RCMP officer has died and a suspect and two other officers have been injured while police were serving an arrest warrant in the Metro Vancouver suburb of Coquitlam.

The Independent Investigations Office says police had an altercation with a man, resulting in officers being hurt and the suspect being shot.

It says one of the officers who was also shot died of their injuries.

Carley Hodges, a witness in the busy area of city, described a chaotic scene, with an officer receiving CPR as he was put in an ambulance, another officer with a wound on his leg and a tourniquet above it, and a man in handcuffs.