Less than a year after the shooting of Angus Mitchell, the Vancouver Police Department has completed its review of the incident and concluded that there is no evidence to support charges against the officers involved.
Burnaby RCMP alleged Mitchell was involved in two shootings in the Burnaby last May.
According to Const. Brian Montague, the VPD found no evidence to suggest the RCMP officers who shot at and fatally wounded Mitchell "acted inappropriately, or did any wrongdoing."
Police believe Mitchell entered the Royal Oak Sushi House on May 27 and shot and killed both Huong "Andy" Tran and Chinh "Vivian" Diem Huynh.
Mitchell was also alleged to have shot his former landlord on May 29. The landlord survived the shooting.
Police immediately issued a warning to the public, and on May 30 Mitchell was spotted in his van on 216th Street near 132nd Avenue in Maple Ridge.
According to the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Times, Susanne Murphy of Maple Ridge, was driving to the dikes to take her dog for a walk, when she spotted Mitchell's vehicle and "made the call that brought an army of officers to rural Maple Ridge.
The RCMP Lower Mainland District Emergency Response Team responded to the tip and "shortly after Mitchell was located, shots were fired at police. The officers returned fire and Mitchell was fatally wounded."
According to an earlier press release from Vancouver police, Mitchell was shot and later died in hospital.
During the year-long review, Montague said the department was careful not to rush the process and looked at every aspect of the fatal shooting.
"We strictly look at the shooting itself and whether the officers were justified in using deadly force," he said.
The review will be released to the public as part of a coroner's inquest into the case.
The inquest will examine the incident as a whole, investigating both the May 30, 2012 shooting death of Mitchell and the earlier May 27 shootings in Burnaby.
According to Montague, the results of the inquest will be made public in November.
