BRAMPTON, Ont. – Ontario’s police watchdog has cleared a police officer who fatally shot a man who opened fire at a courthouse north of Toronto earlier this year.
The Special Investigations Unit says Charnjit Singh Bassi, 45, shot an officer on security duty at the Brampton courthouse in the torso before that officer returned fire on March 28.
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The officer is not named in the release but the SIU has previously identified him as 53-year-old Const. Mike Klarenbeek.
SIU director Tony Loparco says the law allows officers to use force – including lethal force – when necessary for self-defence.
He says the officer “had every reason to believe his life and the lives of those around him were endangered.”
Bassi was pronounced dead at the scene.
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