Mountie shoots fellow officer

Accidental wounding occurred during weekend Fort Mac arrest

A Wood Buffalo RCMP officer was wounded by a fellow Mountie during an arrest Saturday.

Officers were called to a Fort McMurray apartment complex on Loutit Road for a complaint about a weapon at around 12:45 p.m.

The officer sustained nonlife-threatening injuries.

“There’s much information I can’t share at this point,” said RCMP spokeswoman Sgt. Josee Valiquette.

Alex Lumsden, 22, was charged with two counts of uttering threats, assault with a weapon and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.

Valiquette alluded to an unspecified “incident” that led to the shooting.

“It caused an officer to discharge his firearm and the other officer was hit,” Valiquette said.

The RCMP major crimes unit is investigating the shooting.

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, which investigates serious injury and death involving police, has not been called.

“This is the mandate of our major crimes unit,” Valiquette said.

Neither the gender nor the names of the officers involved will be released.

“Fortunately, it’s not lifethreatening injuries and we hope for a full recovery,” Valiquette said.

More than two years ago,

“Fortunately, it’s not lifethreatening injuries and we hope for a full recovery.” SGT. JOSEE VALIQUETTE

two RCMP officers were shot in a farmhouse near Sedgewick while issuing a warrant for a firearm. It led to a massive manhunt and Sawyer Clarke Robison was charged in connection with the shootings.

More recently, one officer suffered a foot injury in January after being run over by a truck and another was grazed by a bullet during a subsequent gunfight in Tofield.

Michael Leslie Johnson, who was himself shot by police, faces 36 charges.

Officers exchanged gunfire with John Carlos Quandros, who later shot himself and died, in St. Paul in May.