The driver of what was believed to be a stolen vehicle is dead after they were shot by a Toronto police officer early Thursday morning, the province\u2019s police watchdog says. <\/p>\n
The shooting occurred on Delfi Road, in the area of Council Ring Road and The Collegeway, at around 12:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a news conference on Thursday, Monica Hudon, a spokesperson for the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), said Toronto police officers were pursuing a Mercedes that had been reported stolen the day before. <\/p>\n
Hudon said five unmarked Toronto police vehicles were involved in the investigation. <\/p>\n
She added that there was \u201can interaction\u201d and three of the unmarked cruisers were involved in a collision with the Mercedes. <\/p>\n
At one point, an officer discharged their firearm at the vehicle and the driver was struck, she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe officer who discharged the firearm was standing outside on the roadway and shot into the Mercedes vehicle through the driver\u2019s side,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
The driver was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
It is unclear exactly how many shots were fired at the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Three other occupants of the Mercedes, who were uninjured, were taken into custody, Hudon said. Police have not said what charges they are facing. <\/p>\n
One of the officers involved in the pursuit sustained minor injuries and was taken to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n
The age of the deceased has not yet been released. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe family of the deceased is currently being notified and once that is done, I will be able to release the age to you,\u201d Hudon said. <\/p>\n
While there is no evidence that there was an exchange of gunfire, Hudon said two firearms were found near the Mercedes. <\/p>\n
Four investigators, three forensic investigators, and one collision reconstructionist have been assigned to the case. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver of what was believed to be a stolen vehicle is dead after they were shot by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9313,4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-804683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-apple-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}