Watchdog agency called in after Regina police officer fatally shoots someone Friday morning

The Regina Police Service (RPS) says one of its officers shot someone dead in the city Friday morning.

RPS said in a news release that it happened just after 10 a.m. CST on the 1300 block of Garnet Street. That's a block west of the Albert Community School.

Police didn't release any information about the identity of the person killed. They also didn't release any details of the events leading up to the fatal shooting.

RPS have called in Saskatchewan's Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), the province's independent police watchdog agency, to investigate. SIRT investigates incidents where people are hurt or killed during interactions with police.

RPS said it won't be providing any more information on the fatal shooting and directed all further questions to SIRT.