One man is dead and another is critically injured after a shooting by four South Simcoe police officers in Innisfil on Thursday, according to Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit.
The man who died and the man who is injured are both 19 years old.
In a news release on Thursday, the SIU said the South Simcoe Police were called to a home on Shoreview Drive in the town, about 75 kilometres north of Toronto, for a family dispute at about 3 p.m.
“Officers arrived and there was an interaction involving the two men outside the residence,” the SIU said in the release.
“Four officers discharged their firearms at the men.”
Both men were taken to hospital in Barrie, where one was pronounced dead, the SIU said. The other man has been transferred to a hospital in Toronto, the SIU added.
Originally, the SIU said the two were youths, but clarified later to say they were 19-year-olds.
The South Simcoe Police Service said in a news release earlier that its officers responded to a “violent incident” at a residential address in Innisfil and that an “altercation” occurred between the officers and men.
The South Simcoe police have requested that the Ontario Provincial Police conduct a parallel investigation in the incident. They said they could not comment further because the SIU has invoked its mandate.
The SIU has assigned four investigators and two forensic investigators to the case.
The SIU is an independent government agency that investigates the conduct of police officers that may have resulted in death, injury or the discharge of a firearm, or led to allegations of sexual assault.
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