Fatal northern Quebec police shooting followed drunk driving call, watchdog says

The province’s constabulary watchdog is providing immoderate caller details astir a constabulary shooting that near 1 antheral dormant and a 2nd earnestly injured successful a distant northern Quebec village.

The watchdog, known arsenic the BEI, says Nunavik constabulary received a 911 telephone for idiosyncratic who was allegedly trying to thrust portion impaired astatine astir 4:10 a.m. Monday successful Salluit, an Inuit fly-in colony astir 1,850 kilometres northbound of Montreal.

A connection Tuesday from the watchdog says 2 officers arrived astatine the country a fewer minutes aft the telephone and had a carnal altercation with the 2 men.

The BEI connection does not accidental whether either of the men was armed, but officers astatine archetypal utilized an electrical daze limb and capsicum spray successful an unsuccessful effort to subdue them.

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An serviceman past opened occurrence and deed 1 of the men, the BEI says, and erstwhile the 2nd antheral continued to fight, helium was besides changeable by the officer.

Nunavik constabulary accidental 1 antheral died portion the 2nd was transported by medevac to hospital, wherever the BEI says his information is considered stable.