The province’s police watchdog is investigating after a man sustained serious injuries when he was shot multiple times by a Halton police officer in Burlington early Sunday morning.
The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said officers were in the parking lot of the Crestwood Motel around 12:30 a.m., conducting a traffic stop, when a 23-year-old man drove towards them.
“An officer shot at the man numerous times. He was struck multiple times,” the SIU said in a news release on Sunday.
The man was subsequently taken to a hospital in Hamilton, where he is in stable condition.
The SIU noted that there was a female passenger in the vehicle at the time, and she was not physically injured.
One subject official and one witness official have been designated at this time, the SIU said. A subject official is the officer whose conduct is under investigation.
The agency has also assigned five investigators, two forensic investigators and one collision reconstructionist to the case.
The SIU invokes its mandate when the actions of police result in death, serious injury, sexual assault, and/or the discharge of a firearm at a person.