IIO investigates Williams Lake fatality

WILLIAMS LAKE – The office that investigates all cases of police-involved death or serious injury is probing a fatality in Williams Lake. The Independent Investigations Office says Williams Lake R-C-M-P report they responded yesterday morning to a call about a man who was believed to be armed and in distress.

The statement from the office says Mounties report they surrounded the home for several hours as they tried unsuccessfully to contact the man — and found him dead from an apparently self-inflicted injury when they entered the house shortly after noon.

An investigation is now underway by the I-I-O as it tries to determine what role, if any, police actions or inactions may have played in the man’s death.