News Release

SIU Investigating After Man Shot by Police in Ottawa

Case Number: 24-OFI-492   

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Mississauga, ON (16 November, 2024) ---
The province’s Special Investigations Unit is investigating after an Ottawa Police Service officer shot and wounded a 33-year-old man in Orleans last night.

Preliminary information suggests the following:
  • At approximately 11:15 p.m., police received calls about a man with a weapon who was assaulting people and damaging vehicles in the area of St. Joseph Boulevard and Place D’Orleans Drive.
  • Police confronted the man. An officer shot the man multiple times.
  • Two conducted energy weapons were deployed.
  • The man was arrested and taken to hospital where he remains in critical-stable condition.
  • Four civilians were injured and taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Five investigators and two forensic investigators have been assigned to the case. 

The SIU is urging anyone who may have information about this investigation, including video or photos, to contact the lead investigator at 1-800-787-8529 or online at: https://siu.on.ca/en/appeals.php


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

Kristy Denette, siu.media@ontario.ca
SIU Communications/Service des communications, UES