An Estevan police officer acted reasonably when he fatally shot a homicide suspect who shot another officer with the officer's own gun inside the city’s police station, according to Saskatchewan’s Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT).

SIRT’s investigation into the November 2023 incident concluded that the Estevan Police Service officer who shot the 19-year-old man in custody will not be charged with any criminal offence. SIRT released its investigation summary Thursday.

The officer had “an undeniably reasonable fear of death or grievous bodily harm” for himself and the other officer in the room, the SIRT report said.

“The force employed by the [the officer] falls within the range that is protected by law,” the report stated.

The incident started in the early hours of Nov. 1, 2023, w

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