Incident took place in February of this year under the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls
Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has concluded there are no reasonable grounds to charge a Niagara Parks Police Service special constable after a 49-year-old man was fatally shot by Niagara Parks police earlier this year.
The incident took place back on February 28th when officers responded to an area under the Rainbow Bridge for reports that a man was harassing pedestrians.
In the SIU report, it's concluded the man refused repeated requests to leave to the area and shot pepper spray at two officers while brandishing a knife.
When he refused to drop the knife one of the officers shot the man who died at the scene.
The SIU Director’s Report into the case says the officer who shot the man declined to be interviewed, as is their legal right, but provided notes to investigators.
Director Martino was unable to reasonably conclude that the subject official acted other than in a manner commensurate with the exigencies at hand when he chose to meet a threat of lethal violence with a resort to lethal force of his own.
Seven civilians and five officials who witnessed the incident were also interviewed.
To read the full report click here.
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