A 30-year-old man is dead and Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating after three police officers shot a man early Thursday morning at Toronto Pearson Airport in Mississauga.
Though details are far from complete, the province’s Special Investigations Unit said around 10 a.m. that Peel Regional Police officers were “investigating a man in distress in an SUV at Terminal 1 departures” shortly before 7 a.m. when “early information received indicates he produced a firearm.”
The man was then shot and pronounced dead at the scene, the SIU said in a news release. The SIU is the civilian police oversight agency in Ontario responsible for investigating circumstances involving police that result in death or serious injury.
The agency added no police officers were injured during the shooting and there is no threat to the public.
The SIU said preliminary information suggests the man pulled out a gun shortly after Peel police officers …