A man wanted for the shooting death of a woman in Brampton and an Amber Alert is now dead after an interaction with cops in Niagara Falls.
Niagara Regional Police say the officer-involved shooting happened at a gas station at the corner of Thorold Stone and Montrose Rds. at around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Officers located a vehicle containing Anthony Deschepper, 38, and “members of the NRPS Emergency Task Unit (ETU) became involved with that vehicle.
“Following an interaction with officers, a male was pronounced deceased at the scene,” police said.
The Ontario Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has invoked their mandate.
No officers were injured, police said.
A provincewide manhunt had been issued for Deschepper after a shooting Tuesday just before 2 p.m. in the Airport Rd.-Queen St. a