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Two men, believed to be a York Regional Police plainclothes officers, points what appear to be handguns during an encounter in Markham where one male suspect was shot dead and another injured.Photo by Supplied /Area resident
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The province’s police watchdog has cleared two York cops of any wrongdoing in the November 2022 shooting of two men in Markham.
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In a statement released Saturday, Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit said, “The Director of the Special Investigations Unit, Joseph Martino, has found no reasonable grounds to believe two York Regional Police officer committed a criminal offence in connection with shooting two men, both 23, killing one of them.”
As the Toronto Sun reported at the time, two undercover officers in a pickup truck had been following and surveilling a white BMW X6 SUV believed to be connected to several armed home invasions in Markham.
Six such home invasions had taken place between September and November of 2022.
A Ford F150 pickup truck, driven by undercover York Regional Police officers, was riddled with bullet holes after a shootout between cops and suspected home invaders on Nov. 25, 2022.Photo by Handout /Ontario Special Investigations Unit
On Nov. 25, at 7 a.m., the police officers in the pickup pulled into a driveway on Eyer Dr. in a neighbourhood near Woodbine and 16th Aves.
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The white BMW then pulled across the base of the driveway, blocking in the officers’ truck.
A white BMW, driven by suspected home invaders, was riddled with bullet holes after a shootout with cops on Nov. 25, 2022.Photo by Handout /Ontario Special Investigations Unit
Two armed men, one with a loaded gun and one with a knife, left the SUV and confronted the officers in the pickup, according to the SIU. One of the men then allegedly stuck the barrel of a gun through the open truck window at one officer’s head.
The police fired at the men, killing one and wounding the other. The wounded man was arrested with the arrival of other unmarked cars in the York surveillance team.
A shotgun is visible by the centre console of a white BMW, driven by suspected home invaders, after a shooting with York cops on Nov. 25, 2022.Photo by Handout /Ontario Special Investigations Unit
“Confronted with a shotgun, the officers had every reason to believe that they were at imminent risk of grievous bodily harm or death,” the SIU concluded. “That fear, in my view, held true throughout the barrage of gunfire.”
The SIU is called in to investigate where there has been death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault involving police.
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