One Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer was shot dead, and two others were injured, in what police are calling an “ambush” in the eastern Ontario community of Bourget in the municipality of Clarence-Rockland early Thursday morning.
The officer who was killed has been identified as Sgt. Eric Mueller, according to OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique.
“He is described by his colleagues as a coach and mentor,” Carrrique said at a news conference at the OPP Ottawa detachment Thursday afternoon. “Somebody that everybody looked up to. The glue that held the ship together.”
Sgt. Eric Mueller was killed responding to a report of a gunshot on Laval Street in
