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RCMP say an emergency alert covering the Halifax Regional Municipality has ended after a shooting suspect was taken into custody.
Late Saturday morning, RCMP issued an emergency alert over a dangerous man with a firearm who was believed to be in the woods behind the Sunnyside Mall in Bedford, N.S. This alert was for the community of Bedford only.
Halifax Regional Police then issued an email saying the suspect is believed to have been involved in a shooting in Annapolis Royal, N.S., earlier Saturday.
Halifax police described the suspect as a 31-year-old white man, six feet three inches with brown hair and brown facial hair.
RCMP then expanded the emergency alert to cover all of the HRM around 12:15 p.m., but ended the alert just before 1 p.m. after the suspect was taken into custody.
Customers and staff were locked inside The Chickenburger restaurant on the Bedford Highway, next to Sunnyside Mall, as the search unfolded.
“There’s all kinds of police presence, RCMP and Halifax Regional [Police], and there’s the police helicopter going over and over,” an employee named Loretta told CBC News.
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