ESTEVAN — Saskatchewan’s police watchdog says there are no reasonable grounds to charge an officer who killed a homicide suspect in a police station after the man grabbed another officer’s gun.
The Saskatchewan Serious Incident Response Team says the officer had an “undeniably reasonable” fear of death or harm.
Police in Estevan, about 200 kilometres southeast of Regina, were called in November 2023 to a home, where they found a 46-year-old woman with stab wounds covered in blood.
She later died in hospital.
Police arrested her 19-year-old son and, while photos of him were being taken, he was told to remove his clothes for evidence and tossed his hoodie on a table.
The watchdog says an officer reached to collect the hoodie, exposing his holstered pistol, and the suspect grabbed the gun.
The suspect then shot the officer in the abdomen, and a second officer fired two shots, striking the man in the torso.
The man died in hospital during surgery, while the wounded officer was treated and released.
The Canadian Press
