Four Mounties killed in Alberta

**metallicat** · 03-03-05 05:21 PM

http://www.canada.com/national/story...4-b447ef808f61

ROCHFORT BRIDGE, Alta. (CP) -- Four Alberta RCMP officers were shot and killed during an investigation into a marijuana grow operation Thursday in the worst single case of police deaths in Canada in 120 years.

"It's my sad duty to inform you that four member of the RCMP were killed today in the line of duty -- four brave, young members," said assistant commissioner Bill Sweeney, commanding officer of the RCMP in Alberta.

"We're all in terrible shock and mourning."

RCMP spokesman Cpl. Wayne Oakes said the four officers were at a quonset shed on a farm near the village of Rochfort Bridge in northwestern Alberta when they were shot by a suspect, who was also found in the shed. Oakes said he was known to police, but he would not say if the man had a criminal record.

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I updated this thread based on confirmation that four RCMP officers have been killed in the line of duty. I also moved this thread to the Line of Duty section.

**metallicat** · 03-03-05 05:30 PM

My God, apparently FOUR RCMP officers have been killed in this.

**PAC1** · 03-03-05 05:32 PM

May god be w/them and their families. :(

**Mr Crustacean** · 03-03-05 05:36 PM

Sounds bad. My thoughts and prayers are with them.

**jonesg11** · 03-03-05 05:39 PM

There are all kinds of stories coming out of there, but one that I heard is that there are two mounties lying in the yard, and for whatever reason no one has gone to rescue them. The other is that one of the four had been put in STARS air ambulance and sent to Edmonton.

**metallicat** · 03-03-05 05:41 PM

The radio is saying unconfirmed reports are that four Mounties are dead, one transported to hospital. Nothing confirmed, but this is one bad day.

**jonesg11** · 03-03-05 05:42 PM

Yea something went awfully screwy.

**chewy** · 03-03-05 05:42 PM

"As far as we know there's four officers not responding to their radios, so there is an indication that something is serious here," Solicitor General Harvey Cenaiko told CBC News.

That's a nice statement. Well, four people not answering their radios but I got time to sit and chat with the press. What a way to worry the hell out of the RCMP families. Why not wait a little and actually find out what the hell is going on before running to the bloodsucking press?

**valycop** · 03-03-05 06:23 PM

Oh Dear God spare these men.......why, why is it always us. Why not them???????

**metallicat** · 03-03-05 07:23 PM

It is starting to sound as if two officers were killed last night, and then two more today at some point. I am in complete shock, as this is easily some of the worst news I have ever heard.

**Wombat311** · 03-03-05 07:49 PM

That's tragic. Losing one officer at any time is bad enough, but 4 at once is devastating. :(

You have my thoughts and prayers for their families and colleagues.

**jonesg11** · 03-03-05 08:11 PM

Here is an update.

Now it is confirmed, four Mounties dead.

"In an early evening news conference from Mayerthorpe, Sweeney said: "As you can well imagine, the loss of four police officers is unprecedented in recent history in Canada. . . . It's devastating."

He added that not since the Northwest Rebellion of 1885 have so many police officers been killed in the line of duty."

**Dayna36** · 03-03-05 08:39 PM

It is just horrible. My thoughts and prayers go out tothe families of these brave young men who were ambushed. I am in shock too Metallicat. I feel sick about this. :(

**Dayna36** · 03-03-05 08:46 PM

Here is more:
http://start.shaw.ca/start/enca/news...=n0303135A.xml

Four RCMP officers killed after raid on Alta marijuana grow operation
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Police block the road leading to the property of a suspect who was responsible for shooting four RCMP officers. (CP PHOTO/John Ulan)
ROCHFORT BRIDGE, Alta. (CP) - Four Alberta RCMP officers were shot and killed during an investigation into a marijuana grow operation Thursday in the worst single case of police deaths in Canada in 120 years.

"It's my sad duty to inform you that four member of the RCMP were killed today in the line of duty - four brave, young members," said assistant commissioner Bill Sweeney, commanding officer of the RCMP in Alberta.

"We're all in terrible shock and mourning."

RCMP spokesman Cpl. Wayne Oakes said the four officers were at a quonset shed on a farm near the village of Rochfort Bridge in northwestern Alberta when they were shot by a suspect, who was also found in the shed. Oakes said he was known to police, but he would not say if the man had a criminal record.

A government source told The Canadian Press the suspect killed himself after shooting the officers.

"He just cut them down," the source said.

It was not immediately clear if the suspect killed himself right away. The source said he may have shot at other officers on the scene first.

Oakes said other officers on the property were able to get behind cover.

"The loss of four police officers is unprecedented in recent history," Sweeney said. "I'm told you have to go back to about 1885 in the RCMP history during the Northwest Rebellion to have a loss of this magnitude.

"It's devastating."

Sweeney said the four officers were junior members - three from the Mayerthorpe, Alta., detachment, the other from nearby Whitecourt, Alta. He said names would not be released until family members were notified.

The killing of four RCMP officers Thursday during a raid on a marijuana grow operation in northwestern Alberta appears to be the worst case of police dying in the line of duty in recent memory.

**Bryan** · 03-03-05 09:11 PM

HOLYEEEEEEEE crap...

News video clip of the RCMP spokesperson...

http://www.cbc.ca/clips/ram-newsworl...ayne050303.ram

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