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Toronto officer who shot man multiple times won't be charged, SIU says
Director Joseph Martino said the officer acted in self-defense after the man drew a BB gun that looked like a real firearm.
- The Ontario Special Investigations Unit released a report clearing a Toronto Police Service officer in the fatal December 6, 2025, shooting of a 32-year-old man at the Danforth GO station.
- Officers responded to reports of a person with a gun shortly after 1 a.m. on December 6, 2025, and confronted the man in a stairwell where he pulled a CO2-powered BB gun.
- Acting to protect himself from a 'reasonably apprehended attack' after the man swung the weapon, the officer fired seven times, SIU director Joseph Martino wrote in his report.
- Martino found 'no reasonable grounds' to believe the officer committed a criminal offence, concluding the use of force was legally justified; the officer declined an SIU interview as is his legal right.
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The Ontario Special Investigation Unit is whitening the officer who shot down a man with a ball gun at the Danforth GO Station in Toronto.
·Montreal, Canada
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Toronto officer who shot man multiple times won't be charged, SIU says.
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·Winnipeg, Canada
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Police watchdog clears officer who fatally shot man with BB gun at Danforth GO station
Ontario's police watchdog will not lay charges against an officer who fatally shot a man at the Danforth GO station in December, saying the man had a BB gun that would have reasonably been thought to be real gun.
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dailyguardian.caNo charges for Toronto officer in fatal GO station shooting: SIU
Ontario’s police watchdog says an officer acted in self-defence when he fatally shot a 32-year-old man who had pointed a BB gun at him at a Toronto transit station.
·Toronto, Canada
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