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A Calgary girl is in hospital after a Mountie shot her throughout an altercation that adopted a automobile chase Sunday afternoon in a rural space east of town.
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RCMP say officers from its Airdrie Rural division have been known as to help Calgary police in finding a automobile that was allegedly driving erratically. A Mountie positioned the automobile and tried to cease the motive force, however police say the automobile fled.
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A CPS helicopter adopted the automobile, which RCMP mentioned was “touring at a excessive fee of pace, at occasions within the oncoming lanes.” RCMP say they deployed a tire deflation machine that introduced the automobile to a cease close to Freeway 564 and Vary Street 245, north of Strathmore in Wheatland County.
Police mentioned an RCMP officer then tried to arrest the motive force and an altercation ensued, resulting in a Mountie capturing the feminine driver an unknown variety of occasions.
The 37-year-old girl was transported by air ambulance to the hospital in Calgary and suffered gunshot wounds. The province’s police watchdog, the Alberta Severe Incident Response Staff, took over the investigation; the RCMP can also be conducting its personal inside investigation.
