EDITOR’S NOTE (Oct. 22, 2025): This story has been updated from its original version to include the results of the SIU investigation and a letter from York Regional Police.
Ontario’s police watchdog is now investigating after a teenage boy was killed during a shootout with officers north of Toronto Wednesday night.
At 7:50 p.m. Oct. 30, York Regional Police said officers responded to a call for a break and enter in progress near St. John’s Side Road and Bayview Avenue in Aurora.
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When the first officers arrived, the force said on X Wednesday that they were “immediately confronted” by a male suspect.
“There was an interaction with this male suspect who is now deceased,” police said.
Sources told Global News a shootout occurred, and that a police officer was injured; the suspect, later identified as a 17-year-old boy, was killed.
The teenager never had a criminal record, a letter issued by York Regional Police’s Access and Privacy Department on Oct. 8, 2025, indicates. The only interaction he had with police was the incident in question.
Four officers who shot at the teen were under investigation by the Special Investigations Unit (SIU). On Oct. 11, 2025, SIU Director Joseph Martino determined there were no reasonable grounds to believe that any officer committed a criminal offence in connection with the teenager’s death.
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