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Police shootings in London are rare and deadly shootings rarer still. Tuesday’s killing by officers of a knife-wielding man in east London was only the fourth deadly encounter involving London police in the better part of the last decade. A chronology of recent police shootings.
July 21, 2023: Cesar Hernandez, 35, was shot dead by a tactical officer in an armoured vehicle during a standoff at a Pond Mills home, where Hernandez had been holed up in a garage after shooting a man in a nearby home. Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU), a police watchdog agency that investigates all cases of civilian injury or death involving police, later cleared the officer of wrongdoing.
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Oct. 28, 2021: Sarnia tennis pro Justin Bourassa, 29, was fatally shot by a police officer while choking another officer in a Richmond Row alley after being mistaken for a suspect in a nearby break-in. The SIU later cleared the officer of wrongdoing.
Sept. 3, 2019: A police officer fired two shots at a knife-wielding man charging toward him near Richmond and King streets. Neither shot hit the man. The SIU cleared the officer of wrongdoing.
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Oct. 2, 2018: A police officer fired three shots through the windshield of stolen car after the driver rammed multiple parked vehicles and drove toward officers outside a Noel Avenue apartment complex. Nobody was hurt.
Dec. 23, 2016: Samuel Maloney, 35, was shot dead by multiple police officers after firing a crossbow at an officer and charging at others with a hatchet during a police raid on his Old South house. The SIU cleared all officers involved of any wrongdoing.
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