Man shot and killed by police after reports of someone with firearm in London, Ont.: watchdog

The province’s police watchdog is investigating after a man was fatally shot by police in London, Ont., while another person remains in hospital with unspecified injuries.

The Special Investigations Unit confirmed Friday afternoon that it was investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 35-year-old man.

London police say 911 was called just before 8:40 a.m. Friday about an attempted armed carjacking on Edmunds Crescent, off Deveron Crescent, in the Pond Mills neighbourhood.

More 911 calls were placed shortly after about a man with a gun in the backyards of homes on Glenroy Road, directly west of Edmunds Crescent.

Officers evacuated Glenroy Road and closed the street, reporting to the public at around 10:30 a.m. that the heavy police presence concerned a man believed to be “armed and dangerous.”

While on scene, police say they learned that someone had been taken to hospital in relation to a separate 911 call with a gunshot wound “believed to have been caused by the suspect male.”

Police have not said how, where, or when the injuries were sustained, nor did they provide any details about the person injured except to say that police do not believe they knew the suspect and that they were not the attempted carjacking victim.

At around 11:30 a.m. Friday, police issued an update saying there was no remaining public threat and that the man believed to be armed and dangerous had been taken to hospital. As the SIU has reported, the man has died.

The SIU says its preliminary investigation shows that he was found in a garage at a home on Glenroy Road, that “a police firearm was discharged” and “the man was struck.” He was taken to hospital and pronounced dead.

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