Man dead, Calgary police officer injured in Canyon Meadows shooting
CBC
A police officer was wounded in the leg by a man who later took his own life in a shooting incident early Friday morning in southwest Calgary.
Police were called to the 500 block of Canyon Meadows Drive S.W. at about 2:45 a.m. to investigate a man in a vehicle blaring loud music and behaving erratically, police said in a release.
When an officer approached, the man fired at him, hitting him in the leg.
The officer returned fire and the man ran toward a nearby park, police said.
"The man continued down the path where he then took his own life," the release said.
The officer was taken to hospital in stable condition and has since been released.
Nearby resident Larry Sever says he was awoken at 2:45 a.m. to the sound of two gunshots.
"We opened the blinds. About five minutes later, we heard a whole bunch of other gunshots, and then it was just a whole bunch of police cars coming in," he said.
"There were about 10 cars, two ambulances and a couple of white vehicles. I don't know what they were."
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) is investigating and no further details were made available.
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