Ontario’s police watchdog says a man has died nearly a week after being shot by provincial police in an incident that also left his one-year-old son dead in the City of Kawartha Lakes, Ont.
The Special Investigations Unit says the 33-year-old man died in hospital on Wednesday night.
His name was not released. A post-mortem is scheduled for Friday morning in Toronto, the SIU said.
The agency has said three police officers opened fire on the man after his pickup truck crashed into a cruiser on Pigeon Lake Road, just east of Lindsay. The incident injured an officer who was laying down a spike belt, the SIU said. The officer remains in hospital in stable condition.
It says the man was injured and his baby was found dead of a gunshot wound in the back seat of his pickup truck.
Police had been investigating an alleged kidnapping at the time from a residence in the neighbouring Municipality of Trent Lakes.
In addition to the three police-issued guns, the SIU says investigators found a fourth firearm at the scene.
Thirteen OPP officers were designated as witness officers, the SIU reports. Ten of the witness officers have been interviewed by SIU investigators, and the remaining three will be interviewed in the coming days.
Anyone who may have information about this investigation is asked to contact the lead investigator at 1-800-787-8529. The SIU is also urging anyone who may have any video evidence related to this incident to upload that video through the SIU website.
— With files from Global News Peterborough
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