SURREY - The Independent Investigations Office is probing a second police shooting in Surrey in two months.
A man died of his injuries in hospital Friday night after Surrey RCMP were called to a home in Whalley, in the neighbourhood of 98A Avenue and 118B Street, to check on a man's welfare.
"Upon arrival they encountered an adult male," Owen Court, of the IIO, confirmed. "During the course of their interaction, the male was shot by a police officer."
No more details were released.
The IIO, based in Whalley, was set up in 2012 with the aim of keeping B.C. police officers accountable in cases involving in-custody deaths and serious injuries.
In a separate incident, on Nov. 7, 2013, the IIO was called on to investigate a police shooting in Guildford after an officer with the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit shot a man during a vehicle check at a strip mall near 108th Avenue and 148th Street.
