firearm_death · 2026-Q1
Special Investigations Unit (Ontario) · SIU case 26-OFD-094
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The evidence collected by the SIU, including interviews with a witness officer and other police and non-police eyewitnesses, and video footage that largely captured the incident, gives rise to the following scenario. As was their legal right, the subject officers did not agree to interviews with the SIU or the release of their notes. In the early morning of a day in late February 2026, police officers were dispatched to the residence of a person in the area of a street in Mississauga. The person had called 911 to report concerns that their family member was going to harm them and their children. They indicated that the family member was in possession of firearms. The officers arrived at the address and spoke to the person. They confirmed that the family member was armed and had fled the residence. The officers began to search the area for the family member and located them a short distance away. They chased the family member on foot as they turned a corner to run along a footpath back towards the street on which the residence was located before continuing in the same direction past the street. As they ran, the family member reached into a bag they were carrying, retrieved a handgun, and dropped the bag. The bag was subsequently found to contain a firearm. Repeated commands that they stop went unheeded. The family member continued their flight, turning left at the next intersection. The officers followed as the family member turned onto the driveway of a residence. By this time, other officers were arriving on scene in cruisers. With their handguns drawn, the officers took a position of cover behind a utility pole at the end of the driveway. The officers took cover behind the wall of a garage, beside the driveway, and a van parked in a parking alcove adjacent to the garage. The family member stood at the top of the driveway, in the area of the stairs leading to the entrance to the residence, the gun in their hand. They repeatedly screamed “no” to commands that they drop the gun. The time was about 12:55 a.m. As the standoff continued on the driveway, an officer discharged their CEW. The probes struck the family member’s clothing but did not achieve neuromuscular incapacitation. Shortly after, the family member began to make their way across a shrub line that separated the residences. As they did so, the family member pointed their firearm in the direction of the officers located near the van and garage, and fired at least one shot. A bullet struck an officer’s hat but did not physically injure the officer. Almost simultaneously, the officers fired their weapons. It is unclear whether any of these shots struck the family member, but they remained standing and made their way onto the driveway of another residence where they took cover behind a vehicle parked facing the house. At about this time, another officer arrived on scene armed with a rifle and positioned themselves behind a large tree on the front lawn of the residence, a distance from the family member’s location. Approximately 30 seconds after the first volley of gunfire, the family member fired their weapon again in the direction of the officers located in the area of the residence. The officer fired twice but the family member remained standing beside the vehicle. There followed another exchange of gunfire involving the family member and the officer, resulting in the family member falling to the ground. Officers approached the family member cautiously and moved their handgun away from them. They applied pressure to their wounds and initiated CPR. Paramedics were on scene shortly after 1:00 a.m. The family member was pronounced deceased at 1:14 a.m. The pathologist at autopsy was of the view that the family member’s death was attributable to a gunshot wound to the head. They documented multiple gunshot wounds, including injuries to the right bicep, the left side of the back where a projectile was recovered, and a gunshot wound to the forehead.
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