Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating after a person was shot and injured by police after he allegedly injured a number of individuals with a weapon in Ottawa’s east finish Friday night time.
The Particular Investigations Unit (SIU) says officers with the Ottawa Police Service responded to a name a few man with a weapon who was assaulting individuals and damaging automobiles within the space of St. Joseph Boulevard and Place d’Orleans Drive at roughly 11:15 p.m.
“Police confronted the person. An officer shot the person a number of instances,” the SIU mentioned in a media launch on Saturday.
“Two carried out power weapons had been deployed.”
The SIU says the person was arrested and brought to hospital.
4 civilians had been injured and brought to hospital with non-life-threatening accidents. The province’s watchdog didn’t specify the kind of weapon the suspect used to assault them.
As of Saturday morning, SIU investigators stay on the scene, which spans throughout three parking heaps and a secondary highway on Place d’Orleans Boulevard.
The SIU is investigating the officer discharging a firearm on the man, in response to an SIU spokesperson. 5 investigators and two forensic investigators have been assigned to the case.
Anybody with details about the incident, together with dashcam footage is requested to name the SIU investigator at 1-800-787-8529.
The Ottawa Police Service is conducting a parallel investigation into the alleged assaults of the 4 individuals within the space.
‘You see this on TV’: Witness
Ontario Chronicle Ottawa’s reporter Dylan Dyson spoke with a witness who lives simply behind the Wendy’s on Place D’Orleans Saturday.
The witness, Jack Dad or mum, says that what he noticed isn’t one thing individuals in Orleans would see.
“You see this on TV,” Dad or mum mentioned.
“(on the time) I heard an enormous bang, so I assumed any person banged on our window. So, we appeared exterior and we noticed (about) eight cop automobiles exterior of Wendy’s, simply pointing one thing, I assumed it was their weapons.
“I went out and we noticed the man on the bottom, in order that’s all the way in which. I did not see earlier than that. Cops had been yelling on the van throughout the road on the mall: ‘Go test it out.'”
