B.C. RCMP to share details on investigation into deadly Saanich bank robbery
CBC
Warning: This story contains details of violence.
Nearly seven months after two brothers held up a bank on Vancouver Island and were killed during a shootout with police, the public may learn more about what transpired that day.
Matthew and Isaac Auchterlonie were shot and killed in an exchange of gunfire with police outside the Bank of Montreal on Shelbourne Street in Saanich, B.C., on June 28, 2022.
Six members of the Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team were also injured.
The two suspects, both 22, were later identified as two-thirds of a set of triplets.
B.C. RCMP and the Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit are set to give an update on their investigation in a news conference Friday morning.
In December 2022, six months after the incident, B.C.'s Independent Investigations Office cleared all the involved officers of any wrongdoing.
The agency investigates police interactions where someone is killed or seriously injured, and its report shed more light on what happened the day of the robbery.
Officers from the Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team and Saanich Police Department responded to 911 calls that started coming in at 11:02 a.m. that day.
Ron MacDonald, chief civilian director of the IIO, wrote in his report that the officers all acted lawfully when they fired the shots that killed the Auchterlonie brothers.
According to the report, 16 minutes after stepping into the bank and grabbing a small amount of cash, the brothers walked out into the parking lot as an unmarked van carrying seven police officers pulled in — all members of the emergency response team.
One of the brothers turned to face the van and raised his rifle toward it, which was captured on CCTV cameras.
An officer opened a sliding door and threw out a flashbang device to try and distract the two men. But gunfire broke out almost immediately, and several officers were shot.
The team's medic and driver both fired pistols at the Auchterlonies as other officers tended to each other's injuries, and Saanich police ran toward the scene and opened fire.
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