TORONTO – The streetcar in which Sammy Yatim was allegedly shot to death by a Toronto Police officer will stay in service.
In an e-mail to Global News, TTC spokesperson Brad Ross said the streetcar will be put back into service on the 505 Dundas Street West route later this week. The car number will not change. The streetcar was temporarily taken out of service following the shooting.
Ross said the decision was made after being in contact with the Yatim family.
“We have no objection and it will basically be a reminder for all the citizens of Toronto to remember what took place on that dark night in the history of the city,” Joseph Nazar, a friend of the Yatim family said in an interview Wednesday.
Yatim, 18, was shot at nine times, then tasered while he was brandishing a knife on an empty streetcar on July 27.
The Special Investigations Unit is investigating the shooting, as it does any police-related death. Ontario’s ombudsman Andre Marin is releasing the results of an assessment on the incident Thursday afternoon.
The officer being investigated, Constable James Forcillo, has been suspended with pay.
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