A man who wanted to end his life was seeking to be killed by police when he showed up with an imitation gun at the RCMP detachment in Sherwood Park a few months ago, Alberta’s police watchdog has determined.

The final report into the shooting at the Strathcona County RCMP detachment was released by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team on Tuesday.

The shooting happened on July 28 at 10:30 a.m. in the gated, locked parking lot on the backside of the building, where police cruisers and other RCMP vehicles are secured.

An RCMP officer spotted a vehicle that shouldn’t have been in there and a man with what appeared to be a gun , so she radioed into the detachment to warn others.

Another officer was pulling into the lot and also heard the radio transmission.

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