Tragedy for provincial police in that they have lost one of their own.
Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit is looking into a shooting early Thursday afternoon on Manitoulin Island, in which an officer and civilian died from gunfire.
Police were called to a Gore Bay property about an unwanted man, which resulted in an officer being fatally shot, and the suspect as well, he died in hospital.
The SUI investigates a situation with police where there has been a death, serious injury, or allegation of sexual assault.
