The police in Montreal were conducting a manhunt after a shootout near a building complex on Monday killed one officer and wounded two other people.
The authorities said that one suspect had been killed. The wounded were identified as an officer and a civilian.
Officers were securing the perimeter of the shooting, which took place in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood, a short drive from one of the city’s most affluent neighborhoods, Westmount. The shootout appears to have occurred near a high-rise building with commercial units on the ground floor, including a grocery store and a restaurant.
The province of Quebec issued an emergency alert warning of an armed and dangerous suspect on the loose just after 12:30 p.m.
The warning advised people to shelter in place away from windows and to lock their doors.
“My deepest condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of the police officer who died in the line of duty,” Soraya Martinez Ferrada, the mayor of Montreal, said in a post on social media.
This is a developing story.
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