SASKATOON - Police in Saskatoon say they won't likely release any new details about an incident where officers shot and killed a knife-wielding man until the new year.
Chief Clive Weighill says the officers involved in the weekend incident are taking the next few days off as part of their regular scheduling, and he says it will be up to them if they want to return immediately after that.
RCMP have been called in to investigate the shooting of the 38-year-old man, whose name hasn't yet been released.
Police had been dispatched to the home after a woman called 9-1-1 and hung up.
Weighill told a news conference Saturday that the man came at an officer with a knife that had been strapped to his hand with black electrical tape.
The officer didn't see the man coming at him from behind, and that's when two constables waiting outside the suite opened fire.
Weighill said investigators are still trying to pin down just how many shots police fired at the man, and which ones may have killed him.
There had been a history of domestic violence between the suspect and the woman in the suite, and the man had been charged Dec. 3 with assaulting her, the police chief said.
A warrant was issued for the man's arrest after he failed to appear in court on the charge Dec. 11, he said.
Weighill said the results of the RCMP investigation will be forwarded to provincial corrections, public safety and policing officials, Saskatchewan Justice and the deputy minister of justice.
The Coroner's Office is also investigating and an inquest is automatic when officers are involved in a fatal shooting, Weighill said.
