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Calgary

Woman dead following police incident in Calgary Wednesday morning

Jun 26, 2019 | 3:58 PM

CALGARY – Alberta’s police watchdog is investigating after an officer shot and killed a woman in Calgary.

Police say the officer was responding to a call about 6 a.m. of a suspicious person wandering in and out of several backyards in the city’s southeast.

They say a woman in her 30’s pepper sprayed the officer, they fought and the officer shot the woman.

The woman was taken in critical condition to hospital, where she died.