Tag: Special Investigations Unit
Man shot dead by police amid rampage had been arrested five days earlier
A London man shot dead by police amid a violent rampage last week was a father with a troubled past who had been arrested just days before his death. Ontario’s police watchdog, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), is probing the death of a 35-year-old man, who was fatally shot by a London police officer inside […]
‘I had to save myself’: Woman recounts brush with death, frustration with police
M.J. Macera was looking for her bathing suit Tuesday when she found a bullet casing and an unfired round in her spare bedroom.
SIU investigating injury to fleeing suspect: London police
Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating an injury suffered by a woman as she ran away from officers trying to arrest her, London police say.
‘I didn’t even know he was shot’: Wife of man shot by gunman describes terror
A man was renovating a southeast London home when a carjacking suspect, later killed by police gunfire, shot him in the head, says the injured man’s wife. The 53-year-old man remained in critical condition in hospital Monday, three days after the terrifying crime spree that London police say ended when an officer fatally shot the […]
Watchdog details violent rollover that badly hurt driver, clears OPP officer
An OPP officer was cleared of wrongdoing after a driver who was briefly pursued for speeding crashed and rolled a luxury vehicle several times while exiting Hwy. 401 near Ingersoll.