Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has announced that it won’t be pursuing any criminal charges after a man died at a home in Burlington, Ont., back in June.
Early on June 3, Halton Regional Police Service officers were called to the residence due to a disconnected 911 call originating from there.
The SIU reported that when the 911 dispatcher returned the call, they overheard a conversation between a mother and her son indicating that the son had killed someone inside and was now threatening his mother.
Upon arrival, officers were met by the mother who informed them her son was upstairs in a bathroom, according to the SIU.
The SIU stated that an officer instructed the 28-year-old man to drop his knife and exit the bathroom, but he initially refused to comply.
“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 he was flipped onto his back, officers noticed he “was bleeding profusely from a large laceration across the neck,” as per SIU’s report.
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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 the address. (CBC)
Officers called EMS and attempted life-saving measures on him, stated the SIU. Unfortunately, he was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to SIU findings, it appeared that he had suffered “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 an official release from SIU on Monday.
Additionally, another man in his 50s was found deceased at this location while a woman in her 50s was transported to hospital with “non-serious injuries.”
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