‘Fearing for our lives:’ Couple reacts about fatal shooting incident in Dartmouth – Halifax | 24CA News
A Dartmouth lady feared “for her life” after she mentioned she and her husband discovered themselves within the midst of a deadly incident in Dartmouth, N.S., on Saturday morning, when police shot and killed a person who allegedly confronted officers with a weapon throughout his arrest.
Ronda Jackson-Spears, who was strolling within the Maybank Field space in direction of the close by Mic Mac Mall together with her husband on the time, mentioned the couple needed to flee the world and conceal behind a car within the car parking zone of a soccer area throughout from the place the scenario occurred.
“My legs were completely ‘Jell-o’,” mentioned Jackson-Spears.
Albert Spears mentioned they have been at a crosswalk when a police truck pulled up beside them to dam visitors. He mentioned an officer obtained out and informed the couple to “go, go, go”.
“We had to run away from there, over to the soccer field is where we went,” he mentioned, “after that, we went down over the hill and there was a cop there with a machine gun on the other side of the field and there was another guy laying down in the grass with another gun.”
He mentioned after they fled the scene, they weren’t certain what transpired.
Micmac Boulevard between Woodland Avenue and Horizon Court in Dartmouth are closed to all visitors because the investigation continues.
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“At first the cop was telling the guy to drop the phone, so I guess it could’ve been a weapon and they didn’t know, and they thought it was a phone … but I had to keep going so I didn’t hear much of that,” Albert Spears mentioned.
Spears mentioned he caught a glimpse of “a man” standing by a automobile within the car parking zone. He mentioned he had “something in his hand” and to him, it regarded like a cellphone, however he mentioned it additionally may’ve been a weapon.
Albert Spears mentioned the world is someplace the couple generally stroll via. He mentioned each time he passes via the ballfield transferring ahead, he’ll take into consideration the occasions of Saturday morning.
“I was surprised that happened right around here,” he mentioned.
Ronda Jackson-Spears mentioned after they evacuated the scene and made it to the mall car parking zone, she started to marvel why an emergency alert hadn’t been despatched out to alert the general public.
“We were at the mall, and we were wondering ‘how come there wasn’t any text message alert for this happening?’, we didn’t get one at all, the whole day,” she mentioned.
The couple mentioned that they wish to see alerts despatched out about conditions like this sooner or later.
A person was killed after he allegedly confronted police with a weapon throughout his arrest on Saturday morning in Dartmouth.
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According to a launch from Halifax Regional Police, officers responded to a weapons incident involving a person within the space of a sports activities area close to Micmac Boulevard and Woodland Avenue at about 9:00 a.m. on Saturday.
“While attempting to arrest the man, he confronted the officers with the weapon, and officers discharged service weapons,” police mentioned. “The man was taken to hospital where he was later pronounced deceased.”
Halifax Police have referred the incident to the Nova Scotia Serious Incident Response Team (SiRT), who will proceed the investigation.
On Sunday, SiRT mentioned they’re nonetheless awaiting post-mortem ends in response to a request for extra info from Global News.
— With recordsdata from Zack Power
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