A Toronto police officer fatally shot inside a Mississauga coffee shop Monday afternoon is being remembered as a “gentle giant,” a “larger than life” person whose positive presence was felt before he even entered a room.
inside a Mississauga coffee shop Monday afternoon is being remembered as a “gentle giant,” a “larger than life” person whose positive presence was felt before he even entered a room.He leaves behind a wife, two teenage children and his parents.
Hong was in Mississauga Monday for a joint training exercise with members of Toronto and York regional police forces. He’d reportedly stopped at a Tim Horton’s for lunch around 2:15 p.m. where he was fatally shot at close range in what Peel police Chief Nishan Duraiappah described as an “ambush attack.” Hong died at the scene.Toronto Fire Chief Matthew Pegg met Hong professionally on the job and called him a “very close” friend.
“To see something like this happen in our city to people I love and care about, there are no words for that,” said Pegg, who called the killing “an unspeakable thing.”Interim Toronto Police Chief James Ramer officially announced Hong’s death Monday evening in Mississauga. Calling Hong a “husband, father, and son,” Ramer said he’s committed to the slain officer’s family that they will have the “full support of the Toronto Police Service every day going forward.”
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