Watchdog investigating death of man involved in shootout with Ontario police [Video]

Ontario’s police watchdog says it’s investigating the death of a man who was involved in an exchange of gunfire with police in cottage country.

The Special Investigations Unit says police responded to a call in Minden Hills on Sunday about a man who had left his property with a firearm.

The SIU says Ontario Provincial Police arrived in the area of Highway 1 and Highway 17, where an officer and the man who had taken cover in the bushes exchanged gunfire.

It says the 60-year-old man was found dead and his injury was determined to be self-inflicted.

The watchdog says multiple investigators are assigned to the case.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to come forward and contact the SIU.

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