News Release
SIU Investigating after Man Falls to Death from Toronto Apartment Building
Case Number: 17-TCD-046
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Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 20-year-old man this evening in Toronto.
Preliminary information suggests the following:
- Shortly before 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 8, 2017, officers with the Toronto Police Service received a call and responded to an apartment building located at 121 Humber Boulevard.
- Officers attended a 12th floor unit.
- A short time after police entered the unit, a man fell from the 12th floor balcony to the ground below.
- He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Three investigators and two forensic investigators have been assigned to investigate this incident.
The SIU is urging anyone who may have information about this investigation to contact the lead investigator at 1-800-787-8529 ext. 2038. The Unit is also urging anyone who may have any video evidence related to this incident to upload that video through the SIU website.
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