SIU invokes mandate after OPP-involved shooting on Highway 401 in Cambridge [Video]

Highway 401, through Kitchener eastbound to Cambridge, was brought to a standstill Friday due to an investigation into a police-involved shooting.

Now the province’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is investigating.

The SIU told CTV News that an officer shot and wounded a 45-year-old man during a traffic stop on the eastbound 401, early Friday evening.

“At approximately 5:20 p.m., Oxford OPP officers stopped the driver of a vehicle eastbound on Highway 401 in the area of Homer Watson Boulevard in relation to an investigation,” a spokesperson with the SIU told CTV News in an email.

That investigation began earlier in the day around 4:30 p.m. after officers responded to a report of someone jumping out of a moving vehicle on Oxford Road 6 and then being placed back in the vehicle.

The OPP said officers caught up with the vehicle along the eastbound of the 401 and during that interaction an officer fired their gun, leaving the driver of …