RCMP cleared in 2022 Kamloops deadly shooting after violent abduction
The BC Prosecution Service won't be charging an RCMP officer who shot and killed a suspect during a domestic hostage taking incident near Kamloops in 2022.The fatal gunshots came from an RCMP emergency response team officer who had hidden outside an office trailer in which the suspect's wife and young child were being held against their will.Matthew Gustafson, identified by iNFOnews.ca following the incident, was supposed to pass off his two children to his ex-partner Aug. 14, 2022. Instead, he assaulted her and took both her and one of the kids hostage.She tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to escape, and an hours-long ordeal that began in Kamloops ended with Gustafson shot and killed on a rural property west of the city.BC's police watchdog, the Independent Investigations Office, found police tactics necessary and reasonable as they sought to avoid harm to the man's hostages.READ MORE: Missing Kamloops man's body foundPolice at the time said the initial 911 call came from the woman pleading for help from inside…
26 Sep 21:30 · iNFOnews.ca