Police watchdog investigates after man released from custody dies in northern B.C. home

PRINCE RUPERT–The Independent Investigations Office (IIO) of B.C. is looking into an incident in Prince Rupert.

On October 19, the RCMP notified the IIO that on October 18, at around 10 p.m. officers attended a single-vehicle collision involving a man driving a white pick-up truck at the intersection of Summit and Omineca Avenues.

The officers conducted an investigation into the collision and transported the man to the Prince Rupert detachment.

The man left the detachment at 12:25 a.m. on October 19. Later that morning the man was found dead at his home.