News Release

SIU Called to Investigate Shooting between Police and a Man in Brampton Townhouse Complex

Case Number: 16-OFI-145   

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Brampton, ON (8 June, 2016) ---
The province’s Special Investigations Unit is examining the circumstances surrounding a shooting involving the Peel Regional Police and a 24-year-old man in Brampton.

Preliminary information suggests the following:
  • Just after midnight on June 8, Peel Police received a call about a disturbance in one of the buildings at Newhaven Manor, close to Highway 410 and Williams Parkway.
  • Officers responded and confronted a 24-year-old man.
  • There was a brief foot chase and shots were fired between police officers and the man.
  • The man was struck several times.  
  • He was rushed to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.  He underwent surgery and is currently in critical condition.          
    
Two subject officers and seven witness officers have been designated as part of this investigation.

Five investigators and four forensic investigators have been assigned to this incident.

The SIU is urging anyone who may have witnessed the incident to contact the lead investigator at 1-800-787-8529.

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

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