Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating after a 15-year-old male teen was shot following an altercation with police in Mississauga.
Peel Regional Police responded to a call of a robbery in progress at a gas station in the Credit Valley Town Plaza just before 2 a.m. on Thursday at Britannia Road and Creditview Road.
The Special Investigations Unit said the incident involved three young males and two of them fled the scene in a grey vehicle prior to officers arriving.
Investigators said the third male attempted to rob another establishment and was seen trying to enter three vehicles with people inside.
When officers arrived at the plaza, the SIU said there was an interaction with the male and he was shot.
“They attended, and while they were here, there was an interaction with at least one person,” SIU spokesperson Jason Gennaro said.
“A police officer discharged a firearm. The young man was struck. And he was subsequently taken to a GTA hospital with serious wounds.”
The 15-year-old remains in hospital in serious but stable condition.
Janet Wade-Hunt said she was sitting in her vehicle outside a Pizza Pizza restaurant in the plaza parking lot when someone armed with a gun opened her passenger side door.
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“I commanded him, authoritatively but not out of anger, but commanded him to, ‘Sir, you need to close the door,'” Wade-Hunt said. “He looked at me, he looked at the mess on my passenger side. He went from my car, then to another car, and another car with the gun.”
Wade-Hunt said she called 911 and managed to record the suspect’s encounter with police on her cellphone.
“I didn’t want him to get killed. I have empathy for him. I feel a little guilty that I’m actually telling them where to find him.”
Gennaro said the SIU, which has assigned six investigators and two forensic experts to the case, is appealing for surveillance video and witnesses prior to and after the shooting.
The SIU an arm’s length agency that investigates reports of death, serious injury and sexual assault involving police.
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