News Release
No Charges to Issue in Relation to Man’s Serious Injury Suffered When He Jumped from Toronto Apartment Balcony
Case Number: 25-TCI-228
In the evening of June 3, 2025, Toronto Police Service officers were dispatched to an apartment complex following calls to police regarding a domestic disturbance in one of the units. While police were inside the apartment unit and conducting their investigation, they learned that a 42-year-old man had jumped from the balcony of that unit. Officers made their way to the ground floor, exited the building and, after a brief search, located and arrested the man. He was transported to hospital where he was diagnosed with a fractured vertebra. On his assessment of the evidence, SIU Director Joseph Martino determined there were no reasonable grounds to believe that an officer committed a criminal offence in connection with the man’s injury.
Full Director’s Report (with Incident Narrative, Evidence, and Analysis & Director’s Decision): https://www.siu.on.ca/en/directors_reports.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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Kristy Denette, siu.media@ontario.ca
SIU Communications/Service des communications, UES