One-year-old boy shot dead
Abduction from Trent Lakes ends with police shooting child’s father and officer seriously injured
LINDSAY — A one-year-old boy was shot dead, the boy’s father was shot and an Ontario Provincial Police officer was seriously injured during an interaction between the man and police on Thursday morning just east of Lindsay.
The Special Investigations Unit is investigating.
The incident began at about 8:48 a.m. when Peterborough County OPP officers were called to a location in Trent Lakes after the 33-year-old father abducted his son in what police called a domestic dispute involving a firearm.
City of Kawartha Lakes OPP tried to stop his pickup truck on
Sturgeon Road and then a collision happened between the vehicle, an OPP cruiser and a civilian’s vehicle on Pigeon Lake Road, east of Lindsay.
An OPP officer who was outside the cruiser at the time of the collision was seriously injured.
An altercation then happened between the man driving the pickup and officers, police said. Three officers shot at the 33year-old man, who was “gravely” injured and airlifted to a Toronto hospital.
The one-year-old boy was found dead inside the pickup of a gunshot wound, according to the SIU, but there was no immediate word on how the boy was shot.
The OPP officer injured by the collision was also taken to a Toronto hospital and was in stable condition early Thursday afternoon, according to OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique.
“Our thoughts and best wishes are with our officer,” Carrique stated.
Kawartha Lakes Police Service officers, who patrol the former Ops Township, also took part in the arrest.
Pigeon Lake Road between Heights Road and Settlers Road was closed for hours for the investigation.
The police investigation is being conducted by the OPP criminal investigation branch, with the help of the Kawartha Lakes Police Service and York Regional Police, at Carrique’s request, police said.
The SIU has assigned four investigators, two forensic investigators and one collision reconstructionist to the case. At this time, three subject officers have been designated, according to the SIU.
The SIU is urging anyone who may have information about this investigation to contact the lead investigator at 1-800-7878529.
The SIU is also urging anyone who may have any video evidence related to this incident to upload that video through the SIU website.
The SIU is a civilian law enforcement agency, independent of the police, that conducts criminal investigations into circumstances involving police and civilians that have resulted in serious injury, death or allegations of sexual assault.