News Release
SIU Investigates Shooting Injury near Thunder Bay
Case Number: 12-PCI-022
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Mississauga (18 January, 2012) --- Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is probing the circumstances surrounding the shooting injury of a 47-year-old Thunder Bay man yesterday.
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) contacted the SIU and reported the following:
• At approximately 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 17, 2012, Thunder Bay City Police received a call. Based on information that came from the call, the OPP was called to assist in locating a 47-year-old man;
• The man’s vehicle was seen by OPP officers on Hwy 527, about 40 km north of Thunder Bay. An OPP aircraft monitored the vehicle until Emergency Response Team (ERT) officers on the ground could arrive;
• The ERT officers took up observation of the vehicle, which at some point left the road and became stuck in a ditch;
• A short time later, the man sustained a gunshot wound to the head. He was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The SIU has assigned three investigators and two forensic investigators to probe the circumstances of this incident.
Anyone with information or who may have witnessed this incident is asked to contact the lead investigator at 416-622-1925 or 1-800-787-8529 extension 1925.
If you or someone you know is an affected person in need of support, please call the Affected Persons Program General Referral Line at 1-877-641-1897 or click here for more information: siu.on.ca/en/apc.php
The SIU is an independent government agency that investigates the conduct of officials (police officers as well as special constables with the Niagara Parks Commission and peace officers with the Legislative Protective Service) that may have resulted in death, serious injury, sexual assault and/or the discharge of a firearm at a person. All investigations are conducted by SIU investigators who are civilians. Under the Special Investigations Unit Act, the Director of the SIU must
- consider whether the official has committed a criminal offence in connection with the incident under investigation
- depending on the evidence, cause a criminal charge to be laid against the official where grounds exist for doing so, or close the file without any charges being laid
- publicly report the results of its investigations