The province’s police watchdog is investigating after a 29-year-old man was shot by a police officer during an interaction in Kitchener
The province's police watchdog has invoked its mandate into an early morning death investigation in Tay Township.
Wednesday morning. said Waterloo Regional Police were called to the area of Veronica Drive and Kinzie Avenue at around 9:45 a.m. for reports of a man sleeping in a vehicle. Officers arrived and became involved in an interaction with the man in the vehicle. The SIU said at some point, an officer shot at the vehicle and struck the man.The SIU, which investigates the conduct of police that may have resulted in death, serious injury, sexual assault, and/or the discharge of a firearm at a person, has assigned three investigators and two forensic investigators to the case.
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