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SIU Investigating Police-Involved Shooting in Windsor

Case Number: 25-OFD-373   

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Mississauga, ON (18 September, 2025) ---
The province’s Special Investigations Unit is investigating the circumstances surrounding a police-involved shooting today in Windsor, leaving a 58-year-old man seriously injured.

Preliminary information suggests the following:
  • At approximately 2:45 p.m. on September 18, 2025, a man reported to police that he wanted to harm himself. 
  • Officers attended a residence in the area of Stanley Street and Lillian Avenue and encountered the man in the backyard. The man discharged his firearm in the direction of the officers and then went inside the residence.
  • Officers made attempts to negotiate with the man.
  • When the man, who was still armed, came out of the residence, three officers discharged their firearms and the man was struck.
  • He was transported to hospital for treatment.

Three investigators and three forensic investigators have been assigned to the case. 

The SIU is urging anyone who may have information about this investigation, including video or photos, to contact the lead investigator at 1-800-787-8529 or online at: https://siu.on.ca/en/appeals.php

If you or someone you know is an affected person in need of support, please call the Affected Persons Program General Referral Line at 1-877-641-1897 or click here for more information: siu.on.ca/en/apc.php

The SIU is an independent government agency that investigates the conduct of officials (municipal, regional and provincial police officers, police officers with the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service, special constables with the Niagara Parks Commission and peace officers with the Legislative Protective Service) that may have resulted in death, serious injury, sexual assault and/or the discharge of a firearm at a person. All investigations are conducted by SIU investigators who are civilians. Under the Special Investigations Unit Act, the Director of the SIU must

  • consider whether the official has committed a criminal offence in connection with the incident under investigation
  • depending on the evidence, cause a criminal charge to be laid against the official where grounds exist for doing so, or close the file without any charges being laid
  • publicly report the results of its investigations

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Monica Hudon, siu.media@ontario.ca
SIU Communications/Service des communications, UES