B.C. RCMP to share details on investigation into deadly Saanich bank robbery

Warning: This story incorporates particulars of violence.

Practically seven months after two brothers held up a financial institution on Vancouver Island and have been killed throughout a shootout with police, the general public could study extra about what transpired that day. 

B.C. RCMP and the Vancouver Island Built-in Main Crime Unit are set to provide an replace on their investigation in an 11:30 a.m. PT information convention on Friday morning.

Matthew and Isaac Auchterlonie have been shot and killed in an change of gunfire with police outdoors the Financial institution of Montreal on Shelbourne Road in Saanich, B.C., on June 28, 2022.

Six members of the Higher Victoria Emergency Response Staff have been additionally injured.

The 2 suspects, each 22, have been later recognized as two-thirds of a set of triplets.

In December 2022, six months after the incident, B.C.’s Impartial Investigations Workplace cleared all the concerned officers of any wrongdoing.

The company investigates police interactions the place somebody is killed or severely injured, and its report shed extra mild on what occurred the day of the theft.

IIO report particulars incident, clears officers concerned

Officers from the Higher Victoria Emergency Response Staff and Saanich Police Division responded to 911 calls that began coming in at 11:02 a.m. that day.

Ron MacDonald, chief civilian director of the IIO, wrote in his report that the officers all acted lawfully after they fired the photographs that killed the Auchterlonie brothers.

In accordance with the report, 16 minutes after moving into the financial institution and grabbing a small amount of money, the brothers walked out into the parking zone as an unmarked van carrying seven cops pulled in — all members of the emergency response group.

One of many brothers turned to face the van and raised his rifle towards it, which was captured on CCTV cameras.

An officer opened a sliding door and threw out a flashbang machine to attempt to distract the 2 males. However gunfire broke out virtually instantly, and a number of other officers have been shot.

The group’s medic and driver each fired pistols at the Auchterlonies as different officers tended to one another’s accidents, and Saanich police ran towards the scene and opened hearth.

In accordance with the report, one of many brothers have been shot within the head as he tried to maneuver throughout the parking zone, and the opposite was hit a number of occasions whereas he shot on the van, later attempting to crawl towards his brother.

Autopsies confirmed one brother was hit by three police bullets and the opposite was struck by 9.

The report was primarily based on statements from seven civilian witnesses and 24 cops, 911 name recordings, surveillance video, cellphone footage from police and witnesses, in addition to medical information.

The report additionally famous that two males have been carrying 7.62-mm calibre SKS semi-automatic rifles with prolonged magazines, and one had a big sheath knife tucked into his belt.

After the brothers have been shot and killed, police discovered a big cache of weapons, ammunition and selfmade explosive gadgets of their automobile that was parked close to the financial institution.

Isaac Auchterlonie’s Instagram account, which has since been deleted, was filled with gun images, struggle references and video of him and his brother in camouflage, capturing rifles within the forest.

Friday’s replace will start with a closed-door technical briefing scheduled for 10 a.m. PT, adopted by a information convention at 11:30 a.m.