Canadian Police shoot truck-theft suspect

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 6 (UPI) -- Canadian police in Vancouver shot and wounded a truck-theft suspect after he refused to get out of the vehicle and tried to drive away, a constable said.

The incident occurred Sunday around 5:30 p.m. after four undercover officers in an unmarked car spotted a pickup truck they suspected had been stolen, Constable Jana McGuinness told The Province newspaper

The officers waited until a man got into the truck in a parking lot and then boxed him in with their police car, McGuinness said. Three officers repeatedly yelled for the man to turn off the truck's engine and get out, but he wouldn't, she said.

"The driver disobeyed all the commands and, in fact, fully accelerated the pickup as it was pinned, to the point the wheels were spinning and the tires were smoking," she said.

One police officer fired and hit the unidentified 38-year-old man, but his injuries weren't life-threatening, the report said.

The incident occurred in the city's east end, which has been plagued this year with gang-related shootings, the report said.