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A 17-year-old girl stabbed in what London police described as a domestic violence call that led to officers fatally shooting an 18-year-old man has died in hospital, investigators say.
Police on Friday identified the victim as Breanna Broadfoot.
“The London Police Service extends our condolences to the victim’s family, friends and loved ones,” police said in a brief statement.
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Broadfoot was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after police descended shortly before midnight on Tuesday on a home on Wellesley Crescent, near the Clarke Road-Trafalgar Street intersection, following a domestic violence call, Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said.
At the scene, officers found a man in the home with a knife, and a man and a woman who had been stabbed, the SIU said.
The injured man had since been released from hospital while a third man in the home wasn’t injured, authorities said.
Two police officers fired their guns at the knife-wielding man, an 18-year-old who later died in hospital, the provincial watchdog agency probing the shooting said.
Thursday, the SIU said in an emailed statement to The Free Press they would not be making public the identity of the man shot by police, the first fatal London police shooting since July 2023, when 35-year-old Cesar Hernandez was shot dead during a standoff at a Pond Mills home he’d entered after shooting a man nearby.
The SIU probes all cases of civilian injury or death involving police in Ontario. As part of this investigation, eight London police officers and two civilians have been interviewed, said Kristy Denette, an SIU spokesperson.
The shooting shocked residents of the east London neighbourhood where it occurred, with neighbours saying a family lived in the home where the violence flared.
By Thursday night, London police had left the scene. All curtains at the house where the police shooting took place were drawn closed. Some blood could still be seen on a white side door.
jjuha@postmedia.com
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