Quebec Police Officer Bureau of Independent Investigations (BEI) has launched an investigation into a police chase in Saint-Jérôme, Laurentians, in which two people were killed. According to the first information of BEI, around 01:00 in the early hours of Sunday, the Saint-Jérôme police department received a complaint for a stolen vehicle and located the car. When they found him, they tried to stop the driver, but he refused to stop and instead accelerated, with the police chasing him in a “short chase” on Highway 15, according to the BEI. During the escape, the suspect’s vehicle fell on another car on a highway ramp and both caught fire. The suspect who was driving the stolen vehicle is dead and one of the three occupants of the vehicle was hit during the pursuit. The identities of the victims have not yet been released. Five BEI investigators have been tasked with investigating the circumstances of this police intervention. The service is in charge of investigating whenever someone dies or is injured during a Quebec police operation. They will be assisted by two reconstruction technicians from Quebec County Police, who will work under the supervision of BEI investigators. BEI asks anyone who has seen this to contact them through its website at www.bei.gouv.qc.ca/nous-contact. This report by The Canadian Press was first published in French on April 17, 2022, with archives from CTV News.
