Ontarios police watchdog investigating after 2 die inside Burlington home [Video]

Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating after two people were found dead inside a Burlington, Ont., home overnight Tuesday.

The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said in a news release that at roughly 12:30 a.m., Halton Regional Police officers responded to a home on Cornerstone Drive, near Dundas Street, after receiving multiple 911 calls for a disturbance.

SIU spokesperson Kristy Denette told reporters at the scene that when officers arrived at the home, a 28-year-old man fled upstairs. When officers found him, he had a “self-inflicted injury, believed to have been caused by a knife.”

Denette said officers attempted to arrest the man, and provided life-saving measures before calling paramedics, but he died at the scene.

Halton police told Global News an interaction occurred between officers and the man, which resulted in the SIU probe.

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