The Director of the Special Investigations Unit, Joseph Martino, has found no reasonable grounds to believe that a Chatham-Kent Police Service officer committed a criminal offence in connection with the shooting and serious injuries suffered by a 63-year-old man in Tilbury last September.
SIU officials say an September 5, 2021, officers responded to a call involving a man reportedly armed with guns.
Officers saw the man exit his garage holding a crowbar.
After refusing repeated requests to drop the crowbar, two officers discharged their Conducted Energy Weapons.
The man dropped the crowbar and removed his hand from his jacket holding an object, pointing it at officers, SIU officials say.
An officer discharged his firearm at the man four times.
He was struck by two bullets.
The officers administered first aid until paramedics arrived.
Director Martino found that the subject official’s use of lethal force was not unreasonable as he had reason to believe the man was pointing a firearm at another officer whose life was in imminent danger, SIU officials say.
Accordingly, the file has been closed.
The full director’s report can be read, here.
