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Man shot during an altercation with police in the city’s west end

By Staff K 20/02/2012 18:58:00

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Man shot during an altercation with police in the city’s west end

A man who was shot during an altercation with police in the city’s west end Monday morning is dead, the province’s police watchdog says.

EMS officials said the man, in his 40s, was taken to hospital without any vital signs.

He was shot once in the torso.

Police said the incident occurred on Campbell Ave., near Dupont St. and Lansdowne Ave., around 10:40 a.m.

Officers were responding to a call about a person with a gun.

Details are sparse as the Special Investigation Unit investigates.

Jason Lewis, a resident on Campbell Ave., said he heard “two loud pops.”

When he looked out his window, Lewis saw a man crouched in the laneway between his house and his neighbour’s.

He then saw what appeared to be a plainclothes police officer approaching the scene.

“He was carrying the walkie-talkie type radio in his hand,” said Lewis.

It wasn’t until he looked out his window a second time that Lewis realized there was another man lying on the ground, shot.

At that point, police and EMS had arrived and emergency crews were performing chest compressions on the man, said Lewis.

Antonio Tavares, another area resident, said he was watching television when his wife said she heard a “strange noise” that she thought was coming from the roof.

When he stepped out onto the veranda, he saw several men who he believed to be plainclothes officers in the laneway next to his home.

That’s when the police and EMS pulled up.

“I saw them carrying the guy to the paramedics’ vehicle,” said Tavares. “It looked like he was already dead.”

The Special Investigations Unit said the man was pronounced dead at St. Michael’s Hospital.

The watchdog agency has assigned five investigators and three forensic investigators to the case.

The SIU is called in to probe incidents involving police that have resulted in serious injury, death or allegations of sexual assault.

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