{"id":461280,"date":"2025-12-21T02:15:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/461280\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T02:15:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:15:20","slug":"shelter-in-place-lifted-after-suspect-officer-exchange-fire-in-welland-ont-siu-probing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/461280\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelter-in-place lifted after suspect, officer exchange fire in Welland, Ont., SIU probing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/shelter-in-place\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shelter-in-place<\/a> order in Welland, Ont., has been lifted following the arrest of a suspect in a tense overnight standoff that started Friday morning, during which a police officer was shot, though not seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Niagara regional police emergency task unit was called to a residence on Second Street around 7:45 a.m. Friday to assist City of Welland bylaw officers. When police arrived, a man inside the residence opened fire, striking one officer in the chest.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the officer\u2019s body armour absorbed the impact. The officer was taken to hospital as a precaution and has since been released.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sounds like the body armour did its job in that case to protect the officer,\u201d Const. Richard Hingley told Global News.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they established a large perimeter around the building on their arrival and ordered residents in the area to shelter in place as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Niagara regional police were assisted by tactical teams from the Hamilton, Halton and Peel police services.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Officers attempted to negotiate with the suspect throughout the day, evening and overnight. Tactical operations included the use of remote cameras sent into the residence, but police say the cameras were fired upon and disabled.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities arrested the suspect,\u00a0identified as 59-year-old Daniel Tronko, without incident at approximately 7:25 a.m. Saturday. He was taken to hospital by Niagara EMS to be treated for a gunshot wound sustained during the exchange of gunfire with police the previous day.<\/p>\n<p>He remains in hospital in stable condition. No additional officers or members of the public were injured.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11582030\/epstein-files-released-photos\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/epstein-dec-19-release-4.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tEpstein files: U.S. DOJ says more to come after 1st batch released\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11584809\/maria-shriver-donald-trump-kennedy-center-renaming\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Untitled-design-59.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Beyond comprehension\u2019: Maria Shriver derides Trump Kennedy Center renaming\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Police lifted the shelter-in-place order following the arrest and confirmed there is no ongoing risk to public safety. All road closures in the area have been removed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis incident was resolved safely as a result of the professionalism and co-ordinated efforts of our members,\u201d Niagara regional police Chief Bill Fordy said.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario\u2019s Special Investigations Unit has invoked its mandate and is investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The SIU confirmed a 59-year-old man suffered a serious injury and that a police officer was struck during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The SIU has assigned three investigators and three forensic investigators to the case, and has designated one subject official and eight witness officials.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The agency is asking anyone with information, including video or photos, to contact investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Police say no further details can be released at this time due to the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shelter-in-place order in Welland, Ont., has been lifted following the arrest of a suspect in a tense&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":461281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,4219,50,5488,106568,210480],"class_list":{"0":"post-461280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-police-shooting","12":"tag-shelter-in-place","13":"tag-welland-shooting"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115755151088425955","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461280","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=461280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}