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The man killed in a crash while fleeing police north of London is being remembered as a loyal friend and loving brother.
Friends have identified the man who died after a two-vehicle collision near Arva on Nov. 30 as Shawn Morris, 35, of London.
Morris succumbed to his injuries at a London hospital on Dec. 4.
“He had the most amazing warm smile,” family friend Rene Wright wrote in a Facebook exchange with The Free Press on Tuesday. “He loved his brother more than life itself.”
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Wright said that Morris enjoyed spending time with friends, listening to music and was a fan of tattoo art.
“He was one of the friendliest guys you’d ever meet,” said Colton Thomas, Morris’s friend since 2018. “He had a great sense of humour. He could always take a joke. He was an all-around good guy to hang out with. He was my best friend.”
Morris had some legal troubles and spent some time in jail, Thomas said, but he was working to move beyond his past.
A date for a memorial service has not been set, Morris’s obituary states.
Neither Ontario Provincial Police nor Ontario’s police watchdog, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), have released the name of the deceased, saying only that it was a 35-year-old man.
The SIU announced on Dec. 2 that it was investigating the crash near Arva. An OPP officer attempted to pull over a vehicle for a driving offence on Richmond Street, near Medway Road, at about 11 p.m. on Nov. 30, the SIU said at the time.
The driver failed to stop for police and collided with another vehicle on Richmond Street near Croydon Drive, the SIU said.
The male driver fleeing from police suffered life-threatening injuries in the crash and died days later in hospital, the SIU said.
A man and a woman in the second vehicle were taken to hospital with unspecified injuries.
The SIU investigation is ongoing. The arm’s length agency investigates reports across Ontario involving police where there has been death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault.
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