British Columbia's police watchdog has released details of its investigation into a fatal police shooting in an Indigenous community near Tofino.
Two officers from the Tofino RCMP detachment responded to a home on the reserve around 9:30 p.m. for a complaint that a woman had been sexually assaulted and was being held against her will.
Photos from the scene, video recordings from the RCMP detachment and autopsy reports also informed the agency's final account of the incident.The other officer told IIO investigators the house was "pitch black" inside when they arrived, and he believed the objects Jones was holding in his hands were knives.He said Jones was partially obscured by a hanging sheet when the officer shone his flashlight into the house.
The officers called for paramedics to attend the remote island by boat and searched for a pulse on Jones but there was none.
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