Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are probing the police-involved shooting in Innisfil last week, with witnesses and video footage being sought.
The province's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said that on Thursday, August 15, at around 3 p.m., officers with the South Simcoe Police Service (SSPS) were called to a home on Shoreview Drive between Whitecap Drive and Dalkab Crescent for a family dispute.
"Officers arrived and there was an interaction involving ... two men outside the residence," SIU officials said in a release on the night of the incident.
"Four officers discharged their firearms at the men. Both men were taken to hospital in Barrie, where one was pronounced deceased. The other man is critically injured and has been transferred to a Toronto hospital."
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The two men were 19 years old, according to the SIU who invoked its mandate regarding the situation.
"At the request of the SSPS, the OPP is conducting an investigation into the circumstances leading up to SSPS attendance as well as the immediate situation at the scene as officers arrived," OPP officials stated in a release on Wednesday. "The OPP investigation is separate from that of the SIU."
OPP are asking anyone with information or video (surveillance, dash cam, cell phone, and social media) taken in the area of the incident between 7:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. on August 15 to contact them at 1-888-310-1122.
Anyone wishing to remain anonymous can contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or ontariocrimestoppers.ca.
