OPP officer killed, 2 others injured in shooting in eastern Ontario community | 24CA News

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Published 11.05.2023
OPP officer killed, 2 others injured in shooting in eastern Ontario community  | 24CA News

Ontario Provincial Police say one officer died and two others had been injured after a capturing in a small group simply exterior of Ottawa.

Police mentioned that simply after 2 a.m. on Thursday, officers from the Russell County OPP detachment had been known as to a house on Laval Street in Bourget, Ont., about 50 kilometres east of Ottawa, after somebody reported a disturbance and mentioned they heard a gunshot.

Three officers had arrived on the house and had been all shot by the particular person on the house, police mentioned.

All three had been taken to a hospital in Ottawa the place one of many officers later died.

The different two officers are nonetheless in hospital recovering, police mentioned.

A suspect has been taken into custody and there’s no threat to public security, investigators mentioned.

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