Cop cleared for shooting man at Yonge & Shuter
10/24/2011 | Shawne McKeown
Police investigate a shooting near Yonge and Shuter streets on September 19, 2011. CITYNEWS.
The province’s police watchdog said there are no grounds to lay charges against a Toronto paid-duty cop who shot a man at Yonge and Shuter streets last month.
The director of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), Ian Scott, said Monday charges won’t be laid against the officer who shot 23-year-old Ankur Patel in the abdomen around 2 p.m. on Sept. 19.
The officer was on paid duty at a construction site on Yonge Street when Patel allegedly approached armed with a steak knife in each hand. The cop pointed his pistol at the man and warned him to drop his weapons.
When he didn’t the officer fired two shots from a distance of about one metre.
Patel was taken to St. Michael’s hospital after the shooting and had a bullet removed.
The SIU interviewed eight witness officers and 15 civilian witnesses for the investigation.
"In my view, there are no reasonable grounds to believe that the subject officer committed a criminal offence in relation to the firearm injury sustained by Mr. Patel,” Scott said in a statement Monday. “There is a strong consistency among the contents of the civilian witness statements and closed circuit video surveillance imagery of the incident.”
The SIU is a civilian agency that probes incidents involving police that involve allegations of sexual assault, serious injury or death.
The director of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), Ian Scott, said Monday charges won’t be laid against the officer who shot 23-year-old Ankur Patel in the abdomen around 2 p.m. on Sept. 19.
The officer was on paid duty at a construction site on Yonge Street when Patel allegedly approached armed with a steak knife in each hand. The cop pointed his pistol at the man and warned him to drop his weapons.
When he didn’t the officer fired two shots from a distance of about one metre.
Patel was taken to St. Michael’s hospital after the shooting and had a bullet removed.
The SIU interviewed eight witness officers and 15 civilian witnesses for the investigation.
"In my view, there are no reasonable grounds to believe that the subject officer committed a criminal offence in relation to the firearm injury sustained by Mr. Patel,” Scott said in a statement Monday. “There is a strong consistency among the contents of the civilian witness statements and closed circuit video surveillance imagery of the incident.”
The SIU is a civilian agency that probes incidents involving police that involve allegations of sexual assault, serious injury or death.
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