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Hide message bar                                             2:11   Police-involved shooting in North Vancouver               A suspect is in custody following a police-involved shooting in North Vancouver on Tuesday afternoon. We spoke to witnesses at the scene who told us what they saw.                    Leave a comment              Share this item on Facebook              Share this item via WhatsApp              Share this item on X              Send this page to someone via email              See more sharing options                             Share     Close                      Share this item on Facebook         facebook     Share this item on X         x     Send this page to someone via email         email     Share this item via WhatsApp         whatsapp     Share this item via Telegram         telegram     Share this item on Reddit         reddit     Share this item on BlueSky         bluesky     Copy article link         Copy link                   Descrease article font size                  Increase article font size                    The suspect in a police-involved shooting at a shopping centre in  North Vancouver  on Tuesday has died from his injuries.    BC RCMP shared an update at 8 p.m., saying the suspect was taken to a local hospital, but he succumbed to his injuries.  Around 1:30 p.m., RCMP officers descended on the Westview Shopping Centre Mall on Westview Drive.  Witnesses told Global News that a suspect was seen holding a knife to a woman’s throat inside a McDonald’s when another man intervened.  Witness Arman Abadi said he went to McDonald’s to get an iced tea.  “I look up, as I’m waiting in line, I look and I notice a guy. He’s behind the counter on an employee,” he said.  “He pulls out a knife and takes one of the employees hostage. Most people run out of the restaurant. I wait inside, trying to see what’s going on. Eventually, he makes his way around to the front. He turns his back to me and I grab his hands. I wrestle with him, get the knife away from him, throw it under a table and I start fighting him.     Story continues below advertisement         “I pin him against the wall, one guy helps me. I ask everyone else to come help as well. So at this point, I’ve gotten the knife away. No one else comes in to help. He says, ‘I have another knife, let me go’. I’m like, if you have another knife, I’m not going to let you go.”             Get breaking National news   Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.                       Sign up for breaking National newsletter     Get Started     By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News'  Terms and Conditions  and  Privacy Policy .       Abadi said eventually he let the man go and that’s when he saw the man leave and gets into a truck.  “Starts to steal a truck,” he explained.  “Can’t get it turned on, puts it in neutral. I go up to the door; he pulls out a yellow box cutter, I back up, he rolls down the parking lot and hits another car and gets out, runs to the gas station trying to steal another car, and then the cops show up.”  Bahman Afshari, owner of the Westview Freshslice pizza, said he came out of his store to see what was happening when he heard yelling and screaming.  “I see the guy sitting in the pickup truck over there, the van, and they have a knife in his hand, try to hit the people who would get close to them,” he said.  “Then he couldn’t run away from the car, he jumped in the gas station, going in the other car, couldn’t go that way, again tried the other car. Then he can’t go that way, there is one cop’s car coming, he’s beside him, he jumps in the cop’s car, tries to get away from him, and he gets shot, with a rubber bullet.”       More on Crime   More videos                 Suspect vehicle connected to Niagara Falls shooting recovered in Quebec        Nanaimo ‘stranger homicide’ suspect previously convicted of assaulting teen in alleged abduction attempt        St. Thomas, Ont. man facing charges after woman kidnapped, sexually assaulted        Lawyers present arguments in trial of man accused of killing daughter in New York                                                      Nanaimo homicide suspect in court                                               Independent Investigations Office takes over case of North Vancouver shooting                                               Crime Severity Index down in Kelowna in 2025                                               Calgary Police Service renews call for people to search properties for missing boy                     Story continues below advertisement         Afshari said the entire scene was chaotic.  “It was terrible; it was like a movie action, you know. Everything you see on the movie, you see the life in front of your eyes.”  He said the police arrived within minutes of the first call.  The public is being asked to avoid the area while the investigation continues.  The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. confirmed to Global News that they have been deployed to the scene as it was an officer-involved shooting.    North Vancouver RCMP are currently on scene of a serious incident at Westview Plaza. The plaza is closed while officers conduct their investigation. We are asking the public to avoid the area until further notice.  pic.twitter.com/wvuYpqnHOz   — North Vancouver RCMP (@nvanrcmp)  July 21, 2026              Advertisement                  Stick to the Facts     Add Global News as a Preferred Source on Google to see more of our stories in your search results.                              Journalistic standards            Report an error           © 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.                  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