Photo by Vince Fedoroff
INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED – RCMP vehicles are seen Monday afternoon by the Pine Street house where an officer discharged his gun during the investigation of a complaint of a male with a fi rearm. The block was closed to the public all Monday night and into Tuesday afternoon.
A section of Pine Street in Porter Creek was blocked off by the RCMP into Tuesday afternoon
A section of Pine Street in Porter Creek was blocked off by the RCMP into Tuesday afternoon following an incident Monday that involved an officer discharging his weapon.
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team has been called into investigate the incident as it involves a local officer discharging his weapon.
The block between 11th and 12th avenues was closed at around 10:30 a.m. Monday after the RCMP received a complaint of a man with a firearm in the Pine Street area.
A man was arrested and taken into custody. His name has not been released.
There were no injuries as result of the officer discharging his weapon, according to a brief press release issued by the local RCMP.
Both the Whitehorse RCMP detachment and the Alberta office of the response team issued brief press releases with few details on Tuesday.
A handful of police vehicles were parked on Pine Street after the block was closed, though there was little activity of officers moving about.
It was unclear how free residents living on that block were to come and go, though the Star learned it was not a complete lockdown.
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Kj on Mar 10, 2020 at 4:40 am
@murders are given less attn. it may be to allow time for the investigators from Alberta to arrive and investigate at the scene.
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Murders are given less attention than this incident on Mar 5, 2020 at 5:31 pm
As a resident of Porter Creek, I want to know why so much attention was given to this? This road was closed down for 2-3 days. When the murder happened over by the Porter Creek mall a few years back, Yukoners were given no information. Then we had another recent shooting by Goodies and again, no information. No updates, just....nothing. So why all of the focus and attention on this? A police person discharged a firearm, and there was an individual in a residential neighbourhood with a gun. Seems straightforward. The murders and drive by shootings....so hush hush and we never hear anything about them again.
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M raftis on Mar 4, 2020 at 8:08 pm
Nice to see the RCMP are opening gun fire withing range of elementary and high schools. Least they manage to do so between recess. I'm sure the government agency investigating the government agency will be fair, thorough and unbiased.
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JC on Mar 4, 2020 at 5:00 pm
Wow, a mountie has discharged his weapon. Welcome to the big city Whitehorse.