Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating after a man was shot and injured by police after he allegedly injured multiple people with a weapon in Ottawa’s east end Friday night.
The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) says officers with the Ottawa Police Service responded to a call about a man with a weapon who was assaulting people and damaging vehicles in the area of St. Joseph Boulevard and Place d’Orléans Drive at approximately 11:15 p.m.
“Police confronted the man. An officer shot the man multiple times,” the SIU said in a media release on Saturday.
“Two conducted energy weapons were deployed.”
The SIU says the man was arrested and taken to hospital.
Four people were injured and taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The province’s watchdog did not specify the type of weapon the suspect used to assault them.
As of Saturday morning, SIU investigators remain at the scene, which spans across three parking lots and a secondary …