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Quebec’s special investigations unit (BEI) has deployed five investigators to probe a Montreal police pursuit of a reckless driving suspect early Thursday that ended with his being fatally shot by police.

According to information compiled thus far by the BEI, the chain of events leading up to the shooting began at 12:42 a.m. with a call made to 9-1-1 concerning in a man in distress at a residence in Côte-St-Luc.

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Officers from Côte-St-Luc’s public security service were first at the scene, at which point the 27-year-old man got into a car that he then steered toward them while accelerating. At the same time, Montreal police arrived on the scene and proceeded to pursue the car for several kilometres, during which several collisions occurred.

Now trailed to a construction site on St-Joseph Blvd. in Lachine, the report compiled thus far by the BEI says the driver of the suspect vehicle first aimed his car at a worker at the site, ran into a squad car, then tried to run down the police pursuing him, at which point he was fatally shot.

The BEI has turned to the Sûreté du Québec not only for technical assistance at the site of the shooting, but also four SQ investigators who will work under their supervision.