Vancouver police shot a man in an East Vancouver apartment Monday morning after he apparently confronted officers with a weapon.
The detachment said it received a 911 call shortly after 10:30 a.m. about “a small child crying, a man yelling and blood on the walls” in the hallway of a low-rise apartment building in the 3300-block of Kingsway.
“Officers arrived to investigate and were confronted by a man with a weapon. He was challenged by police who drew their firearms, and the man was shot.”
An woman suffering multiple injuries was found inside the suite, but was declared dead at the scene.
A young girl believed to be five or six years old was rushed to hospital with undisclosed injures. The male suspect was also taken to hospital for treatment.
The woman’s death is being investigated as a homicide, the city’s third of the year.
Police have cordoned off a building with yellow tape and posted officers in front of the scene.
The Independent Investigations Office has taken over the probe into the incident.
