Police in Ejaz Choudry death tried to keep their identities secret. Now we know who they are [Video]

In the summer of 2023, an anonymous tipster wrote to CBC News claiming to know the name of the police officer who killed Ejaz Choudry.

The problem: it was almost impossible to confirm. Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit identifies officers only if they are criminally charged. With no one charged in Choudry’s death, the officers’ names were never made public — until now.

More than four years after the 62-year-old father of four with schizophrenia was fatally shot inside his Mississauga apartment, CBC News has learned through newly filed court documents the names of the five key officers involved that day. 

For one, it wasn’t his first deadly encounter with a person in crisis. Meanwhile, the officer who shot Choudry testified in a previous case that he tipped a paraplegic man from his wheelchair during an arrest. 

The revelations follow a battle by Peel Regional Police to keep the names and …