HAMILTON — Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating what it calls a “police-involved taking pictures” that left a person in his 30s with life-threatening accidents and a police officer with much less severe wounds.
HAMILTON — Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating what it calls a “police-involved taking pictures” that left a person in his 30s with life-threatening accidents and a police officer with much less severe wounds.
The Particular Investigations Unit says Hamilton Police Service officers responded Saturday afternoon to a name from a resident of an residence constructing within the Ainslie Wooden West neighbourhood a few man “appearing in a threatening method” who was allegedly armed with a firearm.
In a information launch, the watchdog says officers made their technique to the fifth flooring of the constructing and acquired concerned in an altercation with the person.
The discharge Saturday says police exchanged gunfire with the person, which left him and an officer wounded.
In a social media submit Saturday night, the Hamilton Police Service says the person and the officer had been taken to hospital, and the person’s accidents had been doubtlessly deadly.
The police watchdog says six investigators and two forensic investigators are assigned to the case.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Nov. 10, 2024.
The Canadian Press
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