DIED JAN. 24, 2016 / SHOT IN BACKYARD IN HUNTINGTON HILLS
Dave McQueen, 53
Photo by Nina Grossman
Only a week after the death of his beloved brown lab, a distraught David McQueen was killed by police.
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According to an Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) news release, on Jan. 24, 2016, around 5 p.m., the Calgary Police Service responded to a series of 911 calls from the northwest community of Huntington Hills. Shots were ringing out from the back and front yard of a house in the normally peaceful community.
Duty Insp. Peter Siegenthaler said at a press conference a day later that the suspect, at the time unnamed to the public, was firing a handgun “indiscriminately” into the street. One bullet allegedly just missed a passing transit bus driver.
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Police contained the area and told nearby residents to stay inside.
Just after 6 p.m., a man in a wheelchair came out of the back of the house with a gun and “engaged in a direct confrontation with police,” reads the ASIRT release.
Siegenthaler told press, “The matter continued to escalate resulting in the discharge of a service firearm, killing one suspect.”
No officers were injured but the suspect, 53-year-old quadriplegic David McQueen died at the scene.
An ASIRT investigation is still underway.
Sanjai Prasad
McQueen became a paraplegic after a diving accident in his twenties. The 53-year-old was shot by police last January. Photo Courtesy of Facebook.
The death of McQueen's dog may have been one catalyst for the event that unfolded in late January, 2016. Photo Courtesy of Facebook.
"this was an extremely dynamic and unique situation ."
-cps Chief chaffin
Five Fatalities
Calgary Police Chief Roger Chaffin speaks out at a press conference following the first of five fatal police-involved shootings in 2016. Video Courtesy of YouTube.