The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team continues investigating a Strathcona County RCMP shooting that left a man hospitalized with serious injuries.

According to ASIRT, the incident began July 28 at 10:30 a.m. when an RCMP officer observed a man in the secure parking lot of the Strathcona County detachment. The officer believed the man was in possession of a firearm and broadcast that information over police radio.

Several other officers entered the secure parking lot and located the man. After providing verbal direction to the man, four officers discharged their firearms, striking him multiple times.

Officers immediately began providing first aid and the man was transported to hospital with serious injuries. He remains in hospital and is expected to survive.

No officers were injured in the incident.

ASIRT’s investigation will examine the use of force. No additional information will be released.

ASIRT’s mandate is to effectively, independently and objectively investigate incidents involving Alberta’s police that have resulted in serious injury or death to any person, as well as serious or sensitive allegations of police misconduct.