{"id":113765,"date":"2025-08-02T19:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T19:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/113765\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T19:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T19:37:17","slug":"hamilton-man-pronounced-dead-after-day-long-standoff-with-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/113765\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton man pronounced dead after day-long standoff with police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario\u2019s police watchdog is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 62-year-old man in Hamilton on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) , police received a 911 call from a person in crisis at approximately 7:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said he had explosive devices and demanded a negotiator come to his residence in the area of Barton Street East and Sherman Avenue North,\u201d the SIU said in a press release issued on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Officers proceeded by containing the residence and then negotiations with the barricaded man took place throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the late afternoon, a drone was sent into the residence. It revealed the man lying on the floor, with blood visible around him,\u201d the SIU added. \u201cThe man was pronounced deceased.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The SIU has assigned two investigators and two forensic investigators to the case.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities encourage anyone with information to contact the SIU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ontario\u2019s police watchdog is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 62-year-old man in Hamilton on Friday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":113766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-113765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114960862003292913","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}