A Saskatchewan police watchdog agency says there are no grounds to believe a crime was committed when an Estevan police officer shot and killed a 19-year-old man inside police headquarters in 2023.

According to the Saskatchewan Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), the man who was killed allegedly grabbed a police officer’s gun and shot the officer in the abdomen just before the fatal shooting.

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SIRT said the incident began with a homicide investigation on Nov. 1, 2023. Police got a call from a home in Estevan where SIRT said a woman – t

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