TORONTO — Ontario’s police watchdog says it is investigating after Toronto cops fired a gun and fewer deadly weapons throughout an arrest that despatched a person to hospital with a critical harm.
The Particular Investigations Unit says officers have been known as to an house within the metropolis’s west finish on Saturday morning after a person allegedly stabbed somebody and threatened others with a staple gun.
The SIU says that when officers arrived on the scene, the 56-year-old suspect approached them with the staple gun.
The watchdog says an officer fired a sock spherical from a much less deadly weapon, which struck the person, and different officers deployed quite a few “performed power” weapons.
The SIU says one officer additionally fired a gun after the suspect barricaded himself inside his house unit, however the man was not struck.
Investigators say police ultimately entered the unit and as soon as once more fired much less deadly and power weapons on the man after negotiations yielded no outcome.
The SIU says no officers have been injured within the incident and is asking anybody with info to come back ahead.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Dec. 29, 2024.
The Canadian Press
