B.C.’s Independent Investigations Office (IIO) is investigating the death of a man who was shot by an RCMP officer in the Fraser Canyon Hospital in Hope, B.C. — about 152 kilometres east of Vancouver — on Wednesday.
Mounties say an “interaction” between the man and officers occurred at the hospital, resulting in one officer discharging their firearm.
In a statement, police say the man received immediate medical attention, but was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police say they were initially called at 11:44 a.m. to a report of a two-vehicle collision on Highway 5 at the Zopkios off-ramp, where multiple people were found with non-life-threatening injuries and
