B.C. man shot by police repeatedly stabbed himself before shooting: witnesses
BURNABY, B.C. — Employees at a grocery store in Surrey, B.C., told a corner’s inquest Monday that they watched a man repeatedly stab himself with stolen paring knives minutes before he was shot by transit police.
Naverone Woods, 23, was shot inside the Safeway by officers on the morning of Dec. 28, 2014, and died after he was taken to hospital.
Glen Gorgas, the manager of the meat department, said he watched helplessly as the shirtless young man stabbed himself.
“It was almost like he was in a catatonic state, like he was a zombie,” he told the inquest.