B.C.’s police watchdog says it is investigating the death of a man on a highway near Prince George on Thursday.
RCMP said it notified the Independent Investigations Office (IIO) — which steps in to investigate when an interaction with police in the province ends with someone being killed or seriously injured — about the incident, which occurred at around 4:45 p.m.
In a release, police said they received a report of a man whom they described was experiencing a mental health crisis.
The man was located in a vehicle south of the scales on Highway 97, RCMP said, and officers contained the scene and stopped highway traffic.
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