Monday, February 10, 2014
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• 11 a.m. Canada competes in men’s curling and women’s hockey. • 2 p.m. Alex Bilodeau, seen here, will look to defend his Vancouver Olympic moguls title against teammate Mikaël Kingsbury. GREG DOWNS/FOR METRO
Man dies from downtown gunshot Investigation. Police say victim’s wound was self-inflicted while running from officers HALEY RYAN
haley.ryan@metronews.ca
MOIR VIRTUE, MORE MEDALS
Canada’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir perform their free dance in the ice dance portion of the team figure skating event at the Sochi Winter Olympics on Sunday. The Canadian team won silver and finished the opening weekend with four medals. Story, page 20. PAUL CHIASSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS
The province’s Serious Incident Response Team is investigating whether a man who died after an apparent self-inflicted gunshot while running from police meant to shoot himself, or if it was an accident. Halifax Regional Police say three men and a woman were refused when they tried to book a room at the Radisson Hotel on Hollis Street around 4:20 a.m. Sunday. After they left, a passerby came in and told the staff one of them had fired a gun in the air outside. Staff Sgt. Reid McCoombs said police searched for the group and found all four people on Blowers Street
A policeman takes photos on Barrington Street. JEFF HARPER/METRO
about 20 minutes later. “As police approached them, one of the males ran away and police gave pursuit,” McCoombs said. As the man was running south on Barrington Street, McCoombs said the gun went off, causing a self-inflicted wound. The 25-year-old man was taken to hospital, were he later died. McCoombs said the officers who ran after the suspect did not know he carried a weapon. If they had, he said
it would depend on the circumstances, but “they would certainly approach very differently.” “We were investigating complaints of a gunshot, but there were four people,” McCoombs said. “We didn’t know who had what, or if they still had it.” Police arrested the other man and woman involved in the incident outside the hotel, and later arrested a third man at a residence in northend Halifax. McCoombs said all three were interviewed and released, and no charges have been laid. Ron MacDonald, SIRT director, said the agency is looking into the man’s death and will interview three officers involved in the pursuit. He said they will also question witnesses, and ask surrounding businesses for surveillance video. MacDonald said their investigation will try to determine whether the suspect meant to shoot himself, and are exploring all possibilities.