Man who fired at RCMP officers during standoff 3 years ago in Chilliwack sentenced to 75 days after time already served
Daniel Hackl was in custody for a little more than three years from May 2023 incident until sentencing in BC Supreme Court last week
June 1, 2026
Under B.C. criminal justice system that affords credit of 1.5-to-one for time served in pre-trial custody before sentencing, the three years Daniel Hackl spent behind bars since the day he shot at members of the RCMP’s Integrated Emergency Response Team (ERT) during a lengthy standoff amounts to 4.5 years.
With Crown asking for a five-year sentence for attempted murder, Hackl should be released before the fall based on the calculation and sentence received in BC Supreme Court in Chilliwack on Friday (May 29, 2026).
Hackl will still be under court supervision having been sentenced to 75 days plus three years probation in addition to a 20-year firearms prohibition.
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The now 32-year-old pleaded guilty to attempted murder with a firearm on Jan. 12, 2026, in connection with a 10-hour standoff with police on Victoria Day three years ago in Chilliwack.
On May 22, 2023, RCMP officers responded to a report of an armed and distraught man holed up in a house at the corner of Queen Street and Knight Road. Inside the home, Hackl had dozens of firearms, included some 3D printed ones.
After five hours of standoff, the incident escalated with Hackl firing gunshots at ERT members.
That standoff ended when the house went up in flames, presumably intentionally caused by police, and Hackl was able to be arrested.
This incident was so serious that two ERT officers, among the most highly trained, supplied victim impact statements about the trauma they have suffered from being shot at that night.
“They both describe sleepless nights, they describe an impact on their family,” Crown counsel Aaron Burns said at Hackl’s sentencing hearing on April 1, 2026.
“With respect to police officers, we can forget that they are people, that are human beings who have families, who have responsibilities at home.”
Hackl underwent some sort of mental breakdown that night based on what exactly is unclear, but the court heard of some drug use along with holotropic breathing leading to some seriously delusional thoughts and impulsivity.
Unfortunately, he had a lot of guns, most of them legally owned but he also had 3D printed guns, which were made illegal in recent years.
Section 102.1 of the Code was enacted in 2023 and discusses “possession of computer data” pertaining to a firearm and a device capable of being used with a 3D printer or similar system to manufacture a firearm.
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