SIU Investigating Police Situation In Lakeshore Monday Evening
Tuesday July 4th, 2023, 7:15am
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The Special Investigations Unit is investigating after a 21-year-old man suffered serious injuries in Lakeshore Monday afternoon.
The SIU says preliminary information suggests that in the afternoon of July 3rd, 2023, Ontario Provincial Police received a call about an armed man acting erratically. An officer located the man in the area of West Belle River Road. The man ran at the officer with a weapon, took a firearm from the officer’s vehicle and fled.
Officers later located the man in the river and brought him to safety.
The man was taken to hospital for treatment of serious injuries and remains in hospital at this time.
The firearm has been recovered.
