The Washington State Workplace of Impartial Investigations recovered a firearm and different proof from the scene of a deadly Vancouver police capturing Wednesday night time in east Vancouver.
The Vancouver Police Division beforehand mentioned that the person killed was armed with a firearm on the time.
That is the primary police capturing the workplace is investigating because it started responding to incidents in Southwest Washington on Dec. 1.
Police contacted the person at 10:48 p.m. Wednesday within the parking zone of Safeway, 13719 S.E. Mill Plain Blvd., Vancouver.
The person and an officer, whose identities haven’t but been launched, received right into a bodily battle. Throughout that battle, the person pulled out a gun. One officer shot the person, who was taken to an space hospital the place he was pronounced lifeless, in accordance with the police division.
One officer was injured within the battle and obtained medical remedy. Nobody else was injured, in accordance with the Workplace of Impartial Investigations.
Three officers — the one concerned and two who witnessed the capturing — have been positioned on crucial incident depart, which is customary protocol. The Workplace of Impartial Investigations mentioned it’s going to launch the concerned officer’s identify throughout the subsequent few days.
The person who was killed has been recognized, and investigators have notified his subsequent of kin. The Clark County Medical Examiner’s Workplace will later launch his identify and trigger and method of dying. An post-mortem is scheduled for at present, in accordance with the Workplace of Impartial Investigations.
Fifteen investigators with the workplace initially responded to the capturing. The workplace is required to finish its investigation inside 120 days. If extra time is required, it should inform its advisory board the rationale for the delay, the company mentioned.
That is the seventh legislation enforcement capturing in Clark County this yr. Six of the seven shootings had been deadly.