Edmonton man shot dead by police after stabbing officer during search warrant: EPS
An Edmonton man was shot dead by police early Wednesday morning after he stabbed an officer, Edmonton Police Service says.
The officer was a member of the Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit of the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams, which was searching a home on 54 Street near 15 Avenue around 6 a.m. when the officer was stabbed.
"While police were inside the residence speaking with the suspect, he stabbed one of the EPS members, resulting in police officers discharging their firearms," EPS said in a news release later that day.
The man died at the scene.
The officer was hospitalized with injuries that were described as not life threatening.
ASIRT, the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, will be investigating the event, as it does all instances of serious injury or death by police action.
When CTV News Edmonton arrived at the scene around 6:30 a.m., a portion of a duplex on 54 Street was taped off.
The full block in the Sakaw neighbourhood was closed and police were letting residents out individually.
"I was exercising in the backyard and then I heard some police sirens and then suddenly the tape's there," Sakaw resident Navdeep Kaur told CTV News Edmonton about police arriving around 6 a.m.
With files from CTV News Edmonton's Nahreman Issa
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