OPP shoot man dead hours after mask dispute leads to alleged assault | CBC News:
July 15, 2020 - "Ontario's police watchdog is investigating after officers fatally shot a 73-year-old man in Haliburton County on Wednesday morning. The man had refused to wear a mask and allegedly assaulted a grocery store employee before driving away, Ontario Provincial Police say. Police were called to a Valu-Mart in Minden, Ont., just after 8 a.m., OPP Sgt. Jason Folz said. Officers tried to stop the suspect's car, but they refrained 'in the interest of public safety' before doing a follow-up investigation....
"Ontario's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said the man drove away, and an officer saw the car and started following it for a short while. Based on the licence plate, officers made their way to a home on Indian Point Road.... Outside the home there was an "interaction," and two police officers fired their guns, the SIU said....The man was shot and taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:47 a.m....
"Tianna Frances, a worker at the Valu-Mart in Minden, said she arrived for her shift at the grocery store shortly after the police were called.... Frances was told that the man didn't want to wear a mask and she and other employees had to explain politely to other customers that an incident had happened earlier.... 'I guess he just got angry and didn't want to. We couldn't really deal with that ourselves because it's really against the rules. So we had to call the police and everything,' Frances said....
"Frances said workers shouldn't have to enforce the mandatory mask policy issued by the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit. The policy ... took effect on 12:01 am on Monday. It's causing chaos, she said. 'If we didn't have to force him and ... tell him that he couldn't come into the store, nothing would have happened, really. He would have got his groceries and went along with his day.'"
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/fatal-haliburton-shooting-siu-1.5650761
"In late August the SIU identified the shooting victim as 73-year-old Leslie Hegedus of Dysart et al Township." Global News, Sep. 30, 2022
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