Parents of man fatally shot by London police want answers after charges cleared
, Bourassa was not involved in the reported break and enter, but the police would not know this until after the incident.
Two officers tried to detain and place handcuffs on Bourassa, resulting in a struggle that caused all parties to fall to the ground.The SIU said Bourassa choked one of the officers for about 45 to 60 seconds before the other officer fatally shot him in the neck at close range.“There was no evidence of other forms of intervention such as taser, pepper spray or baton,” Bourassa’s parents, Lorraine and Jean-Marc, said in a written statement to Global News.
“We are disturbed at the short timeline from the first encounter to Justin’s death, which is under two minutes,” they added.During their investigation, the director of the SIU, Joseph Martino, determined that the officers were not at fault in Bourassa’s death, finding no “reasonable grounds” to file charges.
“Director Martino concluded that the evidence fell short of a reasonable conclusion that the subject official acted precipitously and without legal justification when he decided to meet a lethal threat to the other officer’s life with a resort to lethal force of his own,” the SIU statement said.
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