News Release

SIU Investigating Man’s Death in Kenora

Case Number: 19-PCD-128   

Mississauga, ON (19 June, 2019) ---
The province’s Special Investigations Unit is investigating the circumstances surrounding the arrest of a 35-year-old man in Kenora last week.
 
Preliminary information suggests the following:
  • At approximately 11:15 p.m. on June 10, 2019, Ontario Provincial Police officers with the Kenora detachment responded to a business on Park Street for a break and enter call. 
  • Inside the business, officers located the man and arrested him.
  • He was transported to a hospital in Kenora for treatment, and then airlifted to a hospital in Winnipeg where he died on June 15, 2019.

Three investigators and one forensic investigator have been assigned to this incident. At this time, one subject officer and five witness officers have been designated. The post-mortem was held in Winnipeg on June 17, 2019. 
 
The SIU is urging anyone who may have information about this investigation to contact the lead investigator at 1-800-787-8529. The Unit is also urging anyone who may have any video evidence related to this incident to upload that video through the SIU website.

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 (police officers as well as 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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