16-Year-Old Allegedly Shoots Mom, Kills 2 Officers in Western Canada
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - A 16-year-old boy shot and wounded his mother before killing two police officers in western Canada on Thursday, officials said.
The incident occurred after the police arrived at an apartment building on a domestic dispute call in Edmonton, Alberta.
According to Edmonton Police Chief Dale McFee, the officers were fatally shot when they arrived, and there was no indication that they were able to return fire, AP reported.
The shooter, identified as the woman's son, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The woman was in a life-threatening condition when taken to a hospital but is now in serious but stable condition. The deceased officers were identified as Travis Jordan, 35, and Brett Ryan, 30.
Edmonton, with a population of just over one million, is the second-largest city in the province of Alberta and is usually considered a peaceful city.
Thursday's killings are the first for the city police since 2015 when a constable was shot numerous times while using a battering ram to enter a residence.
The latest deaths bring the number of officers killed in the line of duty across the country to seven since September, according to the Canadian Police Association’s online memorial.
There was one death in 2019, three in 2020 and two in 2021. That number increased to five last year.
Responding to a domestic dispute is the second most deadly set of circumstances for police officers in the country, according to an analysis of police deaths up to 2009 conducted by Statistics Canada.