Ontario's Special Investigations Unit has cleared a Toronto police officer of any wrongdoing after she shot and seriously injured a man in Cabbagetown this past summer. In a report released Wednesday, SIU director Joseph Martino says there are no reasonable grounds to believe that the police officer committed a crime in wounding a man who had a knife at Carlton and Parliament streets on July 23, 2024. The SIU report says the 32-year-old man was hit twice, once in the left arm and once in the lower right abdomen, and has since recovered from his wounds in hospital.
"I am satisfied that the [subject official] fired her weapon intending to defend herself from a reasonably apprehended attack," Martino writes in the report. "Though the officer, as was her legal right, did not provide that evidence firsthand to the SIU, the circumstances surrounding the shooting naturally give rise to the inference. Simply put, the Complainant was approaching the [subject official] with a knife in hand in a fashion that could only be described as threatening," he continues.
"I am also satisfied that the force the [subject official] used to defend herself, namely, gunfire, constituted reasonable force in the circumstances." Although the SIU did not identify the man, his family has previously identified him as Tylor Coore, an Afro-Indigenous man from White Bear First Nation in Saskatchewan. Tylor Coore, right, is pictured here.
His family says he suffers from mental health issues and was in the middl.
