Police watchdog finds cops blameless for deaths in 2019 Surrey hostage-taking

A Surrey-based police watchdog has found the RCMP’s Emergency Response Team blameless in the shooting deaths of a woman and a man during a hostage-taking at a house in Whalley on March 29, 2019.

Nona McEwen was accidentally killed, said Chief Civilian Director Ronald MacDonald of the Surrey-based Independent Investigations Office, when she was struck by two police bullets as ERT officers fired on a man who was holding a large knife to her throat and had “what appeared to be” a gun in his hand.

Forensic police later found a “realistic-looking” replica pistol between the bed and the wall.

Neither of the deceased’s names are included in MacDonald’s report released April 1, but shortly after they were killed they were identified as Nona McEwan and her boyfriend Randy Crosson.

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