Charges laid against man shot in police incident at Dalhousie CTrain station

The person injured in an officer-involved shooting this week now faces criminal charges relating to events leading up to the police intervention.

Police were called to the parking lot at the Dalhousie CTrain station in northwest Calgary around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday for reports of someone with a knife acting aggressively toward a peace officer.

“Police officers located the man and an altercation occurred, resulting in one Calgary Police Service (CPS) member discharging their Service firearm and striking the man,” police said in a news release issued late Thursday afternoon.

The man was taken to hospital in serious but stable condition as a result of the shooting.

Calgary police Chief Katie McClellan said shortly after the incident that the man had been acting “erratically.”

Police officers are often faced with incidents that are “unpredictable and can escalate very quickly, as did this,” she said at a media briefing Tuesday afternoon.

“Our members are well trained to deal with situations like these, and 99 per cent of the time they are resolved peacefully.”

No officers or bystanders were injured, McLellan said.

Cody Duquette, 23, now faces three counts of assaulting a peace officer with a weapon, one count of possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, and one count of failure to comply with a release order.

He is to appear in court Friday.

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, the province’s police watchdog agency, is now investigating the shooting.

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