Sister alleges 'gross negligence' behind fatal police shooting of Edmonton bystander
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A woman says her brother was sitting by his TV in his basement suite last February when he was killed by a stray police bullet, calling it the result of "gross negligence" from officers responding to a robbery.
A woman says her brother was sitting by his TV in his basement suite last February when he was killed by a stray police bullet, calling it the result of "gross negligence" from officers responding to a robbery.
Susan Bandola says her 59-year-old brother, James Hanna, had recently moved into the apartment in downtown Edmonton after becoming the building's on-site manager. She said that he had been homeless for a time couch-surfing.
"He was just getting his life together and then this happens."
Police have said a stray bullet struck "an innocent person not involved" while officers were shooting at a suspect in an armed robbery at a liquor store.
The provincial police watchdog, the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, has said officers chased the 36-year-old robbery suspect on foot and shot him. ASIRT said the suspect's firearm was fake.
Police have said shortly after, they discovered a resident in the adjacent building had also been struck. ASIRT has said officers administered CPR until paramedics arrived.
"I think James was dead by the time they found him," said Bandola, a registered nurse, who thinks officers did CPR because witnesses were watching.
