Man dies after being shot by transit cops (after stabbing himself in the store)

Man dies after being shot by transit cops

QMI Agency

First posted: Sunday, December 28, 2014 05:15 PM EST | Updated: Sunday, December 28, 2014 05:20 PM EST

A man who had been stabbing himself inside a Surrey, B.C., grocery store was shot by local transit police early Sunday and later died.

News1130 reports that at 8 a.m. a "distraught" man was stabbing himself at the Safeway store near King George Highway and 104th Avenue.

He left the store and was later located by transit police and at least one shot was fired.

Transit police were first to arrive at the scene because the Surrey Central SkyTrain station is nearby.

[☆safe to say that this man had mental health issues? Afterall, he was apparently stabbing himself.  I guess cops were called to speed his death along, not to prevent it?  Transit cops must be mental health specialists in B.C.  STOP BRINGING GUNS TO KNIFE FIGHTS, OFFICERS.   If the next report released says this man pulled his knife on the transit cop, and the transit cop felt threatened by a stabbed up man, likely in pain and possibly weakened by blood loss, so he murdered him, I will not be surprised. ☆]