It was a shootout that prompted the highway closure in Prince George on Tuesday, RCMP say

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· Posted: May 28, 2025 1:21 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 hours ago

A shootout with RCMP led to 1 antheral being injured and a prolonged road closure adjacent Prince George, B.C., investigators say.

According to police, members of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit were conducting "proactive patrols" with section RCMP successful an country eastbound of Prince George erstwhile they attempted to halt a "suspect vehicle."

"The operator exited and allegedly changeable astatine constabulary earlier fleeing successful the vehicle," RCMP Staff Sgt. Kris Clark wrote successful a quality release.

According to B.C.'s Independent Investigations Office (IIO), aft the archetypal shooting, officers were capable to way the taxable and his Volvo to a wood work road. 

"There was an speech of gunfire, and the operator of the Volvo, a man, sustained non-life-threatening injuries. He was transported to a infirmary for treatment," the bureau said successful the statement.

The IIO is present investigating, arsenic they bash whenever a idiosyncratic is injured aft an enactment with police.

During the incident, a agelong of Highway 16 about 30 kilometres eastbound of Prince George, B.C., was closed for respective hours successful what Cpl. Jennifer Cooper described arsenic "an incredibly dynamic event."

She said members of the North District Emergency Response Team and B.C.'s anti-gang unit, the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, responded to the incidental on with constabulary dogs and a helicopter.