UPDATED: 22-year-old man dead following Aurora shooting

April 13, 2014 · 0 Comments

A 22-year-old man is dead after an altercation with police in Aurora.

Just before 9 p.m. on Saturday, York Regional Police responded to a 9-1-1 call reporting a “man with a gun” on Leslie Street near State Farm Parkway. At the time, York Regional Police say they had reports of “people shot” but no other persons sustaining injuries had been found.

By 11 p.m., police confirmed the YRP was involved in the shooting and the man in question was taken to hospital with no vital signs, where he was later pronounced dead at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.

Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU), which is an arm’s length provincial agency investigating reports involving police where there has been a death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault, has assigned four investigators and three forensic investigators to probe the circumstances of the shooting.

“Preliminary information indicates on Saturday, April 12, at approximately 9 p.m., officers with the York Regional Police interacted with a 22 year old man in Aurora,” said the SIU. “Officers discharged their firearms. The man was taken to Sunnybrook where his death was pronounced.”

The SIU asks that anyone who might have witnessed the incident to contact their lead investigator at 416-622-1898 or 1-800-787-8529 x1898.
The mandate of the SIU will be to consider whether any officers involved in the incident committed a criminal offence.