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SIU closes book on Orléans shooting incident
gation. The officer who was the subject of the investigation provided a copy of his field notes for the day of the incident but declined an interview as was his legal right. The final investigation report of the June 4 incident stated that late in the afternoon the suspect had an argument with family members at his home on Tenth Line Road. He became angry during the argument, caused some damage within the house and then left the premises. The suspect then walked into the north- bound Tenth Line Road traffic lane, causing traffic to stop. He jumped on the hood of one car whose driver had two children in the back seat. He kicked out the window of that car, frightening the occupants and also causing one of the children to leave the car and run out onto the street. The suspect then went over to another vehicle and tried to start a fight with the driver by throwing rocks at the vehicle. He
then went back into his house and came out again, armed with a butcher knife. The police had arrived by that time and noted vehicles and pedestrians crowding at the scene. The subject officer drew his gun and or- dered the suspect several times to “get down!” But the suspect instead taunted the officer with the knife. The officer took a cou- ple steps back and the suspect then began to close the distance between them, still ignoring orders to drop the knife and get down on the ground. When the distance between the two men was between 10 to 15 feet, the officer fired his gun twice. One bullet hit the suspect in the upper right chest and came out of his back while the other bullet hit him in the upper right arm. He dropped to the ground and was taken into custody for transport by paramedics to Ottawa Civic Hospital for treatment. He is at present reported in sta-
ble condition pending further results of the original police investigation. SIU Director Scott stated the report indi- cates the officer acted in a proper manner, given the suspect’s “bizarre and aggressive manner” and the threat to the officer and others. “Accordingly, in my view, the officer was justified in discharging his firearm twice in an attempt to stop this imminent threat.” The SIU is an armslength agency that in- vestigates reports involving police where there has been death, serious injury or al- legations of sexual assault. Under the Police Services Act, the SIUmust consider whether an officer has committed a criminal offence in connection with the incident under in- vestigation depending on the evidence, lay a criminal charge against the officer if appropriate or close the file without any charges being laid and report the results of any investigations to the Attorney General. Operation ! 1 0%+*ŏ ŏ hit on the international / !*!ē L’ORIGNAL | Area market-ready products were a hit during a recent familiarization tour, says Tourisme Prescott-Russell Tourism, which along with Ottawa Tou- rism and TransCanada Receptive Tours re- cently hosted about 15 international buyers from Japan, South Korea and China. Held in Ottawa, Rendez-‐vous Canada is the biggest tourism show in Canada. Orga- nized by the Canadian Tourism Commission, the event brings together foreign tour buyers and Canadian tourism operators under the same roof. “Since we are located in the shadow, so to speak, of our nation’s capital’s major at- tractions, we are working on a continuous basis with Ottawa Tourism to highlight the quality of the tourism products in Prescott- Russell,” noted TPRT President Claude Leclair. “It’s a privilege to position ourselves within an event such as Rendez-vous Canada and to highlight our region at the national level.” 12!.01.!ŏ 1ŏ, . ŏ ,+1.ŏ $%!*/ŏ/ */ŏ( %//! La population est conviée à l’ouverture officielle du parc pour chiens sans laisse qui se tiendra le 23 juillet, à 18h30, à l’intersection de la rue St-Jean et la Montée Poupart à Rockland. Le parc pour chien sans laisse est le fruit de plus d’un an de travail de la part des bénévoles et des Services communautaires de la Cité de Clarence-Rockland. Ainsi, les propriétaires de chiens pourront s’y rendre pour offrir un espace ouvert à leur animal de compagnie. VISION vision@eap.on.ca
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ORLÉANS | There will be no charges against an Ottawa Police Service officer who shot a knife-wielding suspect in Or- léans last month. The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) fin- ished its investigation of a June 4 incident in the Tenth Line Road area near the Innes Road intersection. SIU Director Ian Scott stated in a news release that “the subject officer had a reasonably held fear of immi- nent harm or death to himself or others in the immediate vicinity” and was justified in shooting the 20-year-old suspect. The SIU assigned four field investigators and two forensic investigators to the case. Six witness officers and 25 civilian witness- es were interviewed as part of the investi-
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