Vancouver Police apologize after innocent man shot and injured by Arwen gun

Vancouver police have apologized to a man who was mistakenly identified as a suspect in a Calgary home invasion and shot twice with an Arwen gun and hospitalized.

On Monday afternoon, the Vancouver Police Department said that last Saturday night in Yaletown a man was wrongly arrested and shot with a less-lethal Arwen gun.

The statement read: “Officers obtained reliable information that a man wanted Canada-wide in connection with a violent Calgary home invasion was in the area of Richards Street and Pacific Boulevard.”

That man was considered armed and dangerous and potentially in possession of a firearm.

“Due to the high-risk nature of the arrest, VPD’s Emergency Response Team was deployed. During the arrest, officers struck a person with two rubber bullets from a less-lethal ARWEN gun,” the VPD statement read.