News Release
SIU Investigating Incident in Toronto; 61-year-old Woman Suffers Life-threatening Injuries
Case Number: 17-TCI-090
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The province’s Special Investigations Unit is investigating the circumstances surrounding an incident in Toronto in which a 61-year-old woman suffered life-threatening injuries.
Preliminary information indicates the following occurred:
- Sometime after midnight on April 23, 2017, Toronto Police started to receive calls concerning a woman.
- Around 3:00 a.m., several officers arrived at an apartment building on Saranac Boulevard near Lawrence Avenue West and Bathurst Street.
- Officers – including those from the Emergency Task Force – interacted with a 61-year-old woman inside one of the units.
- During the interaction, the woman suffered serious injuries, including burns to a significant portion of her body.
- The woman was rushed to hospital, where she is currently in an intensive care unit.
Four investigators and one forensic investigator 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. 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