Five gunshots were fired into a BMW, one of which struck a suspect, during a police takedown in Mississauga on Oct. 29, 2025, the SIU says. (PHOTO: SIU)

Ontario’s police watchdog has cleared a Toronto Police Service officer after shooting a suspect trying to flee a takedown in Mississauga.

The police shooting happened on Oct. 29 in a multi-level indoor parking garage at a residential complex in the area of Tomken Road and Dundas Street East in Mississauga, the Special Investigations Unit says.

Toronto police had tracked a stolen Rolls Royce to the second level of the parking garage, and the SIU says the vehicle’s owner was shot during an earlier carjacking at a Petro Canada gas station on Queens Plate Drive in Toronto.

Police were in an unmarked vehicle and witnessed a BMW approach the stolen Rolls Royce before a suspect wearing a mask and blue gloves exited the BMW and entered the Rolls.

That’s when officers moved in, blocking the Rolls Royce with police vehicles before it could move.

But that’s when police say the driver in the BMW hit the gas in reverse and tried to flee using the garage’s exit ramp. One of the officers on the scene had exited their vehicle with their C8 rifle, and fired five shots into the vehicle.

At least one of the rounds struck the male driver’s right hand.

The injured suspect then fled on foot, making his way down a stairwell to ground level and escaping from the officers.

The SIU says the suspect “remains at large and his identity unknown.”

This C8 rifle was collected by SIU forensic services after a Toronto Police Service officer shot a male suspect in a Mississauga parking garage on Oct. 29, 2025. (Photo: SIU)

And while the police watchdog organization says it won’t be pursuing charges against the officer, the shooting was not initially reported to the SIU by Toronto police.

Peel Regional Police notified the SIU of the shooting “more than three hours later,” in what the watchdog called “what appears to have been a non-notification of the incident by the TPS in possible contravention of section 16 of the Special Investigations Unit Act, 2019 and section 3 of the Police Code of Conduct.”

SIU Director Joseph Martino said in his decision that he “will be raising this matter in my reporting letter to the chief of police.”

“Consistent with the SIU’s obligations under section 35.1 of the Special Investigations Unit Act, 2019, I will also be referring the matter to the Law Enforcement Complaints Agency,” Martino said.

The SIU is Ontario’s police watchdog agency that investigates police incidents in Ontario involving death, serious injury, the discharge of a firearm, or allegations of sexual assault.


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