The province’s police watchdog has found no reasonable grounds to believe a Greater Sudbury Police Service officer committed a criminal offence in connection with the fatal shooting of a 33-year-old man last December.
The Special Investigations Unit says officers were dispatched after a man with a knife attempted to break into a home. The S-I-U says officers located the man walking on the street and was confronted by an officer. Officials say the man ignored commands to drop his weapon, swung an axe at a cruiser, and raised it above his head when he was shot by an officer. He was pronounced dead in hospital.
Director Joseph Martino says the evidence found indicated the officer fired his gun to protect himself, and the file is now closed.
