News Release
Criminal Charges not Warranted in Relation to Shooting at Sudbury Downtown Transit Terminal
Case Number: 18-OFI-098
Other News Releases Related to Case 18-OFI-098
On April 1, 2018, Greater Sudbury Police Service officers were dispatched to the Downtown Transit Terminal after receiving a report of a man carrying two large knives, and trying to break into the terminal’s security office. When the 24-year-old man rushed towards the officers, CEWs were discharged but they appeared to have no effect. When the man ran at the officers again, one officer discharged his firearm multiple times at the man, and the man was struck. The Director of the Special Investigations Unit, Tony Loparco, has determined there are no reasonable grounds to lay criminal charges against the officer in relation to the injury sustained by this man, or by a 39-year-old man who was in the security office at the time.
Full Director’s Report (with Incident Narrative, Evidence, and Analysis & Director’s Decision):https://www.siu.on.ca/en/directors_reports.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