Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating the death of a driver shot by an officer in a Hamilton Mountain neighbourhood on Wednesday afternoon.
A spokesperson for the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) told Global News the incident happened just after 5 p.m. when a driver allegedly steered his vehicle toward an officer responding to a suspicious vehicle call.
“An officer approached a vehicle parked behind the suspicious vehicle. The driver drove toward the officer and the officer discharged his firearm at the man behind the wheel,” SIU spokesperson Kristy Denette said in a release.
“The vehicle travelled a short distance and left the roadway before coming to a stop in a wooded area on Strathearne Place. The man was seriously injured.”
The man would be transported to hospital before pronounced dead by hospital staff shortly before 7 p.m.
Another occupant in the suspect vehicle was not injured in the occurrence and was taken into custody, according to the SIU.
A total of eight investigators have been assigned to the case which involves a subject officer and six witnesses.
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