Man fatally shot after standoff southwest of Edmonton
Mounties are investigating the death of a man in the Sunchild First Nation on Friday.
Police were called to a disturbance at a home at 5:40 a.m.
When they arrived, they saw a person pointing a gun.
A male and two women went into the house after a brief interaction with officers.
The Alberta RCMP Emergency Response Team was brought in to try and get the occupants out of the house.
Around 8:50 a.m. a single gunshot was heard in the home, and the two women came out.
When police went inside, they found a man's body with an apparent gunshot wound.
The victim has been identified as a 27-year-old man of no fixed address.
His name has not been released.
Sunchild First Nation is about 250 kilometres southwest of Edmonton.
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