Montreal police shoot at driver in suspected stolen vehicle: BEI investigating [Video]

Quebec’s police watchdog has opened an investigation into a Montreal police (SPVM) intervention in the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough that ended with one person seriously injured.

A source told CTV News that a police officer who was investigating a report of a stolen vehicle opened fire after a driver drove an SUV toward him near St-Jacques and Girouard streets. One of the occupants in the vehicle was taken to hospital with serious injuries.

A dark coloured SUV remained at the scene with at least two bullet holes in the windshield as the area was cordoned off with police tape.

At a second scene, not far away, eight police cars were parked near the intersection of Upper Lachine Road and Melrose Avenue where a black Toyota SUV was abandoned.

The SPVM did not provide much information since the case was transferred to the Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI).

The police watchdog said in …