Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has reported that there are no grounds for criminal charges following the death of a man at a residence in Burlington, Ont., back in June.
In the early hours of June 3, Halton Regional Police Service officers were sent to the home after receiving a disconnected 911 call from that address.
According to the SIU, when the dispatcher called back, they overheard a conversation between a mother and son indicating that the son had killed someone inside and was now threatening his mother.
When officers arrived, the mother opened the door and informed them that her son was upstairs in a bathroom, as per the SIU report.
The SIU stated that an officer told the 28-year-old man to drop his knife and come out, but he initially refused.
“When the man eventually stumbled out of the bathroom into the bedroom, an officer fired his conducted energy weapon and the man fell to the floor,” said the SIU.
Another officer handcuffed his right hand, and when they turned him onto his back, they noticed he “was bleeding profusely from a large laceration across the neck,” according to the SIU.
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In the early morning of June 3, Halton Regional Police Service officers were dispatched to the residence in response to a disconnected 911 call from that address. (CBC)
The officers called EMS and attempted life-saving measures on him. Unfortunately, he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The SIU mentioned that he had sustained “a self-inflicted injury believed to have been caused by a knife.”
“On his assessment of the evidence, SIU Director Joseph Martino determined there were no reasonable grounds to believe that any officer committed a criminal offence in connection with the man’s death,” stated their news release on Monday.
A second man in his 50s was also found dead at that location, according to SIU reports. A woman in her 50s was taken to hospital due to “non-serious injuries.”
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