An investigation by the Serious Incident Response Team found no reasonable grounds to charge an RCMP officer with a crime.
The investigation arose from an incident where the officer discharged a firearm while responding to a call in Moncton last fall.
It resulted in the death of a suspect.
Police were responding to a report of a robbery at a bank in Moncton on Sept. 27.
Following the robbery, the suspect fled on foot toward a residential area.
According to the SIRT report, the man tried to steal an occupied vehicle at gunpoint, but was unsuccessful and shot at another vehicle.
He continued on foot and broke into a home, pointing his gun at the occupant.
The occupant escaped unharmed.
RCMP officers found the man in the house and ordered him to co-operate.
It appeared the man was complying, but he ran back into the house and fired two shots toward an officer.
The man remained in the house for more than an hour, calling 911 several times, before setting the house and a vehicle on fire and fleeing out the back door.
Multiple officers told the man to stop at that point, but he refused, pointing his gun at officers.
He tried to break in to another home but was unsuccessful.
The SIRT report said the man was “looking for something in his pants and threatened to kill officers.”
The suspect turned around, arms raised, and pointed a gun at officers.
One officer fired three rounds from a carbine rifle, killing the suspect.
SiRT is responsible for investigating all matters that involve death, serious injury, sexual assault and intimate partner violence or other matters of a public interest that may have arisen from the actions of any police officer in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
