The Toronto Police Services Board is calling on the SIU to provide “regular public updates” as they continue to probe the death of a woman who fell from an apartment building balcony near High Park on Wednesday night.
Relatives have said that 29-year-old Regis Korchinski-Paquet was in the midst of a mental health crisis and that they called police to the apartment building near Bloor Street and High Park Avenue in order to get her help.
The board also took the relatively unusual step of calling on the SIU to provide regular updates about the status of its investigation. They said that that they have already interviewed four of the five witness officers and will be interviewing the subject officer later today. They say that investigators have also spoken to several civilians “who were able to shed some light on what transpired” and conducted a canvas of the area in order to locate video footage.
It should be noted that none of Korchinski-Paquet’s relatives were actually inside the apartment at the time of her death.
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