News Release
SIU Called to Investigate Police-Involved Shooting following Street Corner Stabbing in Toronto
Case Number: 17-TFI-258
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Investigators with Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit are examining the circumstances surrounding a stabbing and a police-involved shooting that occurred on a street corner in Toronto.
Preliminary information indicates the following occurred:
- Around 9:15 a.m., Toronto Police Service received a 911 call about an assault.
- A short time later, two TPS officers encountered a man stabbing another man on the sidewalk at the corner of Driftwood Avenue and Cobbler Crescent.
- There was an interaction with the man who was stabbing the other man and one police officer discharged his firearm.
- A 26-year-old man was struck.
- The man who had been shot and the man who had been stabbed were both rushed to hospital. The man who was stabbed is believed to be 60-years-old.
- At present, both men are listed in non-life-threatening condition.
Eleven investigators and four 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. 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