Coroner's inquest will hear details of B.C. man's death in police shooting
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British Columbia's coroners service will hold an inquest next month to investigate the death of a 27-year-old man who was killed by police on Vancouver Island.
British Columbia's coroners service will hold an inquest next month to investigate the death of a 27-year-old man who was killed by police on Vancouver Island.
Chris Bloomfield was shot dead by Mounties outside his mobile home near Mill Bay, B.C., on Nov. 10, 2018.
According to a narrative of the events that morning published by B.C.'s police oversight agency, a woman visited the nearby Shawnigan Lake RCMP detachment to complain that Bloomfield had drugged her with LSD and physically assaulted her.
She told police the man had mental health issues, was taking drugs and had threatened to kill himself.
Officers responded to the mobile home park with paramedics staged nearby.
The report from the Independent Investigations Office of B.C. says Bloomfield advanced on the officers with a knife and was shot with a Taser before police fired six bullets at him.
Bloomfield was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead at 2:25 p.m. that day.
