The Edmonton Police Service is hosting a press conference Friday afternoon to provide an update on the officers who were killed in the line of duty.
Deputy Chief Devin Laforce and Superintendent Shane Perka will be answering questions from the media and more information on the incident will be made available at 3 p.m.
The Gazette will have updates from the press conference.
On Thursday morning Edmonton Police Chief Dale McFee addressed the media and hundreds of police officers to confirm that two of their own were killed overnight responding to a call.
“Today the Edmonton Police Service has been marked by a really unthinkable and horrific tragedy as two of our members have died in the line of duty,” McFee said during the press conference.
Const. Travis Jordan, 35, and Const. Brett Ryan, 30, were killed while responding to a domestic incident at an apartment building in Edmonton’s northeast community of Inglewood.
The young man who shot the officers is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wounds and a female complainant is in the hospital with serious injuries.
According to multiple reports, the shooter was a 16 year old and the woman in hospital is his mother, who is suffering from a gunshot wound.
McFee said the officers responded to call around 12:47 a.m. Jordan and Ryan, who served the police for 8.5 and 5.5 years respectfully, were dispatched to an apartment complex near 114th Avenue and 132nd Street in Edmonton
As they were approaching the unit they were killed by the young man.
"At this time, all indications are that they did not have a chance to discharge their firearms," McFee said.
