Sask. RCMP officer shoots suspect in arm after car chase, watchdog investigating

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· Posted: May 30, 2025 2:06 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

Saskatchewan's constabulary oversight enactment is investigating aft a pursuit Wednesday ended with an serviceman shooting a fishy successful a tract adjacent Canwood, Sask., astir 130 kilometres northbound of Saskatoon.

According to the Saskatchewan Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), RCMP located a conveyance connected to a person wanted connected firearms charges from incidents connected James Smith Cree Nation.

When officers tried stopping an SUV adjacent Crutwell, Sask., it took off. 

SIRT's release said the SUV near the roadworthy and drove done fields respective times.

The SUV finally deed an embankment successful a pasture and came to a stop.

RCMP accidental the antheral astatine the instrumentality got retired and was holding a gun. 

An serviceman fired 2 shots, hitting the fishy successful the arm, RCMP say. The antheral was past arrested.

He and a pistillate who was wrong the car were some taken to hospital.

The 30-year aged pistillate was treated for imaginable injuries from the SUV's collision with the embankment. RCMP said their injuries are not considered beingness threatening.

SIRT said a handgun was recovered from the crushed astatine the scene.

The 32-year-old antheral was wanted by Melfort and Île-à-la-Crosse RCMP for aggregate firearms and weapons charges.

He has not been identified.

The rider is Jasmine Head, a 30-year-old pistillate from Peter Chapman Band. Head faces robbery and weapons charges related to a May 17 incident astatine James Smith Cree Nation.

SIRT's probe volition analyse the behaviour of constabulary during this incident, including the circumstances surrounding the man's arrest.

The RCMP volition inactive beryllium liable for the probe of the archetypal firearms incident, arsenic good arsenic the actions of the occupants of the conveyance during the incident.