Fallen Edmonton police officers were ambushed, shot multiple times by suspect, investigators say
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Edmonton police say the two officers killed early Thursday were shot multiple times as soon as they arrived at the apartment suite where a woman had called for help with her 16-year-old son.
Edmonton Police Service Deputy Chief Devin Laforce said Friday that there was no indication of violence when police responded to the call, and they didn't know there was a gun in the home.
Const. Travis Jordan, 35, and Const. Brett Ryan, 30, were both declared dead in hospital after being shot and killed in what Laforce called an "ambush" by the teen suspect.
"It has since been confirmed that neither officer discharged their firearm, and it is apparent that they had no opportunity to respond to the threat that faced them," Laforce said at a news conference.
Jordan and Ryan were called to what police termed a family dispute at an apartment complex in the city's northwest. A 55-year-old woman, the teen's mother, met the officers outside. According to police, the boy's 73-year-old father was also in the home in a different room.
Police said gunfire erupted before Jordan and Ryan entered the apartment suite, incapacitating them. The teen and his mother then reportedly struggled over the gun, and according to police, the boy shot his mother, then himself. The teen died, but Laforce said the mother remains in hospital in serious but stable condition.
He said details about the gun can't be publicly shared for investigative reasons.
The suspect had no prior criminal record, but police had been called to the home before, including for a previous mental-health complaint.
The father is co-operating with the police investigation.
Because the 16-year-old suspect died in the presence of police, the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) will oversee the EPS homicide investigation.
Laforce said police are looking at whether there is any connection between the killings and another shooting on Sunday at a Pizza Hut near the apartment complex, but as of Friday police haven't officially confirmed any link.
A man who lives in the apartment complex where Ryan and Jordan were killed early Thursday says shots rang out seconds after the constables entered the building.
Phillip Dunn lives in the same building where the shootings occurred.
He told CBC News on Friday he let the officers into the building and moments later heard the shooting.
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