SIU investigating North York shooting

TORONTO – The Special Investigations Unit has been called in to probe the shooting death of a young man in north-end Toronto Sunday night.

The agency says a man in his 20s was shot after Toronto police were called to make an arrest, reportedly near a fast food outlet near the corner of Keele St. and Wilson Ave.

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The SIU says there was an ”altercation between police and a man” and the man suffered a gunshot wound a short time later.

The unidentified man was pronounced dead in Toronto‘s Sunnybrook Hospital.

The SIU has assigned five investigators and two forensic investigators to probe the circumstances of this incident.

The agency investigates all reports involving police where there has been death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault.