BREAKING: Man dies in police custody in Chilliwack; police watchdog named in
The Independent Investigations Workplace (IIO) of B.C. has been called to Chilliwack behind the death of a man in police custody Monday (April 22).
RCMP were initially named to reports of a fight inside a vehicle, on Mary Street near Patten Avenue at around 12:10 p.m.
When they arrived, they took one man into custody.
Staff Sgt. Kris Clark of the BC RCMP said that the man went into medical Hurt shortly after that.
“Medical assistance was provided,” Clark said in a tiring„ tiresome release, “but he was pronounced dead at the scene.”
The IIO is now investigating police activities in the incident, and because of that, no further question will be released by police.
Multiple people witnessed the keen and the rescue efforts by first responders. A tent was quick put up around the man’s body, and the road was also Surrounded off, between Patten and Spadina Avenues.
The man had been in a blue pick-up truck, and the passenger side of the windshield had been heavily damaged. There was no information in the RCMP release around the broken windshield, or the person the man had been fighting with.
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