In addition to the gun, McFee said the suspect was armed with several Molotov cocktails and caused a small fire outside of an elevator.
“In addition to the firearm, the suspect was heavily armed with several hand-held incendiary devices, which we believe to be Molotov cocktails,” McFee said.
At the time of the incident, a CBC reporter was at a committee meeting in the main floor River Valley Room.
The initial thought was maybe a pallet was falling because you wouldn’t expect something like that to be happening," Paquette said in an interview outside city hall.
In a video statement, Mayor Sohi said his office will be following the advice of security professionals to determine next steps for city staff affected by the shooting.
“City hall is a welcoming and open space for Edmontonians, and today’s incident was an unfortunate and unusual change in that tradition.”
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a commissionaire — an unarmed security guard — initially detained the man, which allowed police officers and city hall security to respond to the incident within minutes,
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
In addition to the gun, McFee said the suspect was armed with several Molotov cocktails and caused a small fire outside of an elevator.
“In addition to the firearm, the suspect was heavily armed with several hand-held incendiary devices, which we believe to be Molotov cocktails,” McFee said.
At the time of the incident, a CBC reporter was at a committee meeting in the main floor River Valley Room.
The initial thought was maybe a pallet was falling because you wouldn’t expect something like that to be happening," Paquette said in an interview outside city hall.
In a video statement, Mayor Sohi said his office will be following the advice of security professionals to determine next steps for city staff affected by the shooting.
“City hall is a welcoming and open space for Edmontonians, and today’s incident was an unfortunate and unusual change in that tradition.”
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Another idiot falling victim to Kremlin propaganda.
Props to the unarmed commissionaire.
Probably saved his life
That’s a good point.