Whisper
October 7th, 2007, 06:49 PM
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Police said Sunday they have a suspect a day after an RCMP officer was killed while responding to a call for help from an apartment building in a small, tightly knit community southwest of Yellowknife.
But the Mounties provided few details about the suspect or whether they have the person in custody, the CBC's Joslyn Oosenbrug reported.
Earlier Sunday, dozens of police officers fanned out across the town of Hay River in the Northwest Territories in search of suspects after Saturday's shooting death of Const. Christopher Worden.
Special crime units, including SWAT teams and emergency response officers, arrived from Yellowknife and Alberta to help in the investigation.
Police received the call for help from the apartment building at 4:58 a.m. local time Saturday, and Worden, who was on call, was dispatched, police said. When police lost radio contact with him, two backup officers were sent and they found him in a wooded area suffering from gunshot wounds. Worden was rushed to hospital where he died.
Police blocked off part of the town as they began searching vehicles, but the roadblocks were taken down Sunday morning.
Police said Sunday they have a suspect a day after an RCMP officer was killed while responding to a call for help from an apartment building in a small, tightly knit community southwest of Yellowknife.
But the Mounties provided few details about the suspect or whether they have the person in custody, the CBC's Joslyn Oosenbrug reported.
Earlier Sunday, dozens of police officers fanned out across the town of Hay River in the Northwest Territories in search of suspects after Saturday's shooting death of Const. Christopher Worden.
Special crime units, including SWAT teams and emergency response officers, arrived from Yellowknife and Alberta to help in the investigation.
Police received the call for help from the apartment building at 4:58 a.m. local time Saturday, and Worden, who was on call, was dispatched, police said. When police lost radio contact with him, two backup officers were sent and they found him in a wooded area suffering from gunshot wounds. Worden was rushed to hospital where he died.
Police blocked off part of the town as they began searching vehicles, but the roadblocks were taken down Sunday morning.