News Release
SIU Investigates Fatal Shooting by the Durham Regional Police
Case Number: 08-OFD-255
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SIU Identifies Man shot and Killed by Durham Regional Police
At 4:26 p.m. on Saturday November 29th, officers responded to a 9-1-1 call at 1010 Glen Street, Unit 155. Officers found that a husband and wife had been stabbed along with their two children, ages three and five. An officer located a 47-year-old man in an adjacent unit 158 of the townhouse and, during the subsequent confrontation, the man was shot and killed. The officer and his fellow officers were not hurt.
The SIU can confirm the following information as of midnight Saturday November 29th:
* the woman has subsequently died;
* her husband remains in critical condition at Sunnybrooke Health Sciences;
* their two sons, ages three and five, are in the Hospital for Sick Children and Lakeridge Hospital Oshawa respectively, being treated for their stab wounds; and,
* three other children, ages 11, 12 and 13 who were in the unit at the time of the stabbings, were not hurt and were taken to a local police station in the company of a neighbour.
The SIU is in the process of notifying next-of-kin and is continuing its investigation into the sequence of events leading up to the fatal shooting.
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The SIU is an independent government agency that investigates the conduct of officials (municipal, regional and provincial police officers, police officers with the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service, 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