STABBING SUSPECT SHOT DEAD
SIU investigates police shooting
A man is dead after a Carleton Avenue shooting involving Ottawa police on Sunday evening.
Police had responded to reports of a stabbing on Carleton and Wellington Street West, arriving to a scene at a Metro grocery store where it was reported that multiple people had been stabbed in what began as a dispute over cereal.
Police shot and killed the suspect, who they say was armed with a knife. Two areas were cordoned off with police tape on Sunday night — the parking lot of the Island Park Metro at the corner of Wellington and Carleton, and a stretch of Spencer Avenue between Gilchrist Avenue and Western Avenue.
Police were interviewing people inside the Metro, but had started to allow them to leave by about 8:30 p.m. They all declined to speak to reporters.
A woman who lives on Gilchrist said she had heard three gunshots at 7:05 and believed the sound had come from the area around Spencer Avenue.
Police were already at the scene at the time, said the woman, who declined to give her name.
“We’re not used to this around here,” she said.
Another witness said police were pursuing someone and yelling, “Go, go, go!”
The Ottawa police central division confirmed Sunday night that the province’s Special Investigations Unit was investigating the shooting.
The SIU is an arm’s-length agency that investigates reports involving police where there has been death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault.