Fatal EPS shootings continued into 2025–2026

Original source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/asirt-eps-fatal-shooting-southwest-edmonton-9.7251584 Retrieved: 2026-07-04 (CBC blocks direct fetch; retrieved via reader proxy r.jina.ai.)

Key facts

• June 27, 2026, ~11:58 p.m., southwest Edmonton: police at a vehicle/rescue-truck collision; a 59-year-old man armed with edged weapons; an officer fired; the man died at scene.
• ASIRT deployed (now by the Police Review Commission, Alberta's post-2025 oversight body) for an independent investigation.
• Related 2025 fatal EPS OIS on record: April 15, 2025 (ASIRT decision 2025-0017N, open.alberta.ca) and an Aug 13, 2025 central-Edmonton OIS (EPS media release OISAug13).

No clean full-year 2025 aggregate OIS tally has been published in the compiled press yet; individual fatal incidents are documented (April 15 and later 2025; June 27 2026).