Vancouver – Vancouver Police have notified the Independent Investigations Office of BC after an 18-year-old man died this morning in a police-involved shooting.
VPD officers responded around 2:15 a.m. Saturday to a 9-1-1 call reporting the sound of gunshots near the playground in Clinton Park, near Grant and Penticton streets in East Vancouver. When officers arrived, they encountered a man with a firearm. Shots were fired, and the suspect was shot by police.
The suspect was taken to hospital, but subsequently died. No police officers were injured and no victims related to the initial 9-1-1 call have been located.
The Independent Investigations Office is now investigating the police-involved shooting.
