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Nothing’s ever been quite the same for Ottawa police Const. Umer Khan since that night at a ByWard Market strip joint when a deranged man pressed a loaded .38 revolver to his head and squeezed the trigger.

It didn’t fire because there were only five bullets in the Colt and the sixth chamber was empty.

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It was May 21, 2005 when the police officer cheated death. He was responding to yet another call in the Market only to have a gun pulled on him.

At the gunman’s dangerous offender hearing in 2009, Khan told court he heard two clicks that sounded like “bombs exploding” and didn’t know if he was dead or alive. He was diagnosed with PTSD in the line of duty and has good and bad days.

June 23, 2018 was a really bad day.

He had too many drinks before getting behind the wheel of his Mercedes and when the Sûreté du Québec tried to pull him over in a speed trap on Highway 5 in Gatineau at 2:15 p.m., the off-duty cop doing 123 km/h in a 70 km/h zone just kept going. Quebec police gave chase across the bridge and all the way to the University of Ottawa before Quebec police arrested him at gunpoint.