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Quebec’s Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI) has launched an investigation into a Montreal police intervention that reportedly involved a suspect shot by an officer in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on Wednesday afternoon.
The police intervention occurred at Addington and St-Jacques Sts. around 4:30 p.m., the Montreal police said. However, it referred all other questions to the BEI, which investigates when a person other than a police officer on duty dies or is injured by a firearm used by a police officer in a police operation or while in custody.
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The BEI told the Montreal Gazette in the early evening that it had opened an independent investigation of the incident.
Preliminary information indicates that one person suffered serious injuries, the BEI said.
According to the Journal de Montréal, Montreal police officers who were called to investigate a car robbery fired on suspects in a vehicle after the vehicle tried to hit the police. At least one person was shot in the upper body and taken by ambulance to a hospital, the newspaper reported.
Six BEI investigators have been assigned to investigate the circumstances of the intervention, the BEI said.
A parallel criminal investigation concerning the events that occurred before the police intervention was assigned to the Sûreté du Québec, it said.
The BEI said it’s asking anyone who may have witnessed the events to contact the organization at www.bei.gouv.qc.ca.
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