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Alberta’s police watchdog says the Calgary boy injured in a struggle with police fractured his skull “while in the care of members of the Calgary Police Service.”

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team has been called in to investigate how the child, who has been identified by Global News as 12-year-old Jack Parcells, sustained his injuries.

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In a written statement issued Friday, ASIRT said Calgary police officers were called to the southwest community of Cougar Ridge around 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday after the boy’s parents called police for help when their son became “uncontrollable and causing damage within the residence.”

Calgary police told Postmedia the service was notified the boy has autism. ASIRT says the boy “sustained a serious head injury” while the two officers were escorting him to their cruiser.

“At the time, the youth was struggling with officers, was not handcuffed and had not yet been placed in the police vehicle,” ASIRT said in a release. “EMS was contacted, and transported the youth to hospital, where the boy’s parents were advised that he had suffered a fracture to his skull.”