Ontario’s police watchdog has been called in after a person was shot by York Regional Police in Scarborough on Thursday night. <\/p>\n
A police officer shot the driver of a suspected stolen vehicle during an attempted traffic stop in Scarborough on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
York Regional Police (YRP) said officers began following the vehicle in the area of Kennedy Road and Clayton Drive in Markham.<\/p>\n
The vehicle travelled south to Toronto, and around 7 p.m., police said they attempted to stop it near Kennedy Road and Bonis Avenue, north of Sheppard Avenue East.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe complete sequence of events is still being investigated, but during the interaction, we do know that at least one officer discharged their firearm, striking a lone male occupant in the vehicle,\u201d a YRP spokesperson said in an email to CTV News Toronto.<\/p>\n
Shortly after, the male occupant was transported to a trauma centre in non-life-threatening condition, YRP said. Toronto paramedics told CP24 that they took one person to the hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
YRP said no officers were injured in the shooting, and the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), which is Ontario\u2019s police watchdog, has been notified.<\/p>\n
So far, the SIU has not commented about the shooting.<\/p>\n
The SIU is an arm\u2019s length agency called in to investigate whenever police are involved in a death, serious injury, allegations of sexual assault, or the discharge of a weapon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ontario’s police watchdog has been called in after a person was shot by York Regional Police in Scarborough…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4717,2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-72142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114873257705515278","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72142","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=72142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}