Montreal officers in shooting not yet questioned

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<div>Provincial police investigators said Thursday they have not yet interviewed four Montreal police officers involved in a shooting two days earlier that ended in two deaths, including a bystander who was on his way to work.

Guy Lapointe, a spokesman for Sûreté du Québec, said the four officers present during the fatal shooting would likely be interviewed sometime in the next few days.

He said it's normal to wait awhile before interviewing such witnesses.

"When you meet the major witnesses of a case, you want to be prepared, you want to know a bit of what might have happened and to be able to ask the right questions," he said.

Police were pursuing Mario Hamel, a homeless man who officers say was wielding a knife, through the downtown core on Tuesday when they fired, killing Hamel and Patrick Limoges, a 36-year-old hospital worker.

"Some officers were hospitalized, so that's also a factor," Lapointe said.
He said he didn't know yet if the officers involved had Taser stun guns at their disposal.

But Frank Phillips, who is with Ontario's Special Investigations Unit, the civilian body that looks into allegations of police misconduct in that province, said when it comes to interviewing police officers involved in a fatal shooting, the sooner, the better.

"As an investigator myself
 
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