Anyone with information about the Dec. 4 fatal Vancouver police shooting outside an east Vancouver Safeway is asked to call a tip line established by the Office of Independent Investigations.
The tip line is 564-250-5811. This is the first investigation of a police shooting in the state probed by the office.
Vancouver police contacted a man at 10:48 p.m. in the parking lot of Safeway, 13719 S.E. Mill Plain Blvd.
The man and an officer, whose identities have not been released, got into a physical fight. During the fight, the man pulled out a gun. One officer shot the man, who was taken to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to the police department’s statement.
