By Rosalind Russell – Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit says it was a 66-year-old man who died in Kirkland Lake yesterday morning, after being shot by an OPP officer.
Police were called to the scene of a man reportedly carrying an edged weapon at about 7:30 a.m.
They found him in the parking lot of École Catholique Jean-Vanier… an adult high school.
When the man wouldn’t drop the weapon… a taser was used… and one officer fired his gun. The man died in hospital.
An autopsy is set for today in Sudbury.
The SIU takes over the investigation when a police officer is involved in an incident that results in harm to someone else.
Photo: The SIU is investigating a fatal shooting in Kirkland Lake, Logo provided
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