The province’s police watchdog has ruled that there are no reasonable grounds to lay criminal charges against two Toronto police officers in connection to the death of the Danforth gunman in July, 2018.The Special Investigations Unit found that Faisal Hussain died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on July 22, after he opened fire on a busy stretch of Danforth Ave., killing two people and leaving 13 others injured. The SIU’s report, released Wednesday, also presented a graphic narrative of what happened that night and included previously unreleased photographs taken as evidence following the mass shooting.“After a thorough investigation and for the following reasons, I am satisfied that Mr. Hussain took his own life and that no TPS officer involved in the incident committed a criminal offence,” SIU Director Tony Loparco wrote in the report. “Indeed, in this case there is no evidence that the responding officers’ actions were anything but commendable in the face of truly perilous circumstances.”Read more:Police found AK-47 ammunition in Danforth shooter’s apartment, court documents sayMore coverage of Danforth shootingA person first called 911 at 10 p.m. to report that “someone had been shot on the Danforth” at Pappas Grill, according to the report. “The 911 communications centre was immediately flooded with other callers reporting a shooting on Danforth Ave. and that people were running or injured,” the report found. “One caller indicated that the shooter, Mr. Hussain, had stood on top of a woman and shot her multiple times in the back. At 10:05 p.m., another caller reported that Mr. Hussain was heading westbound on Danforth Ave. and was in possession of a black handgun.”Two officers in a cruiser encountered Hussain on the west sidewalk of Bowden St. and approached him. Hussain fired at them multiple times and “fearing for their lives,” the two officers fired back, the ...
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