Man fleeing car wreck fatally shot by police, ASIRT investigation underway

Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.WARNING: This video contains footage that may be disturbing to some viewers. One man is dead after an officer-involved shooting in north Edmonton. It happened after police were called to a rollover collision on Saturday evening. Erik Bay has the details.

A single-vehicle rollover was reported around 9:24 p.m. in the Fraser neighbourhood near 153rd Avenue and Anthony Henday Drive. Police believe the collision involved an impaired driver. “It was reported to police by witnesses that the male driver of the vehicle had fled the collision scene on foot,” the Edmonton police said in a news release Sunday.The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team , which looks into allegations of police misconduct and incidents causing serious injury or death, has been directed to investigate.View image in full screen

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