Shooting death sparks SIU probe
Roncesvalles Village man was shot in the chest after police arrived, watchdog says
The province’s police watchdog is investigating what happened when Jenyon Middleton, 30, was shot in the chest in Roncesvalles Village early Sunday morning.
Toronto police arrived at a nonprofit co-op home at 55 Howard Park Ave., after getting a call just before 6 a.m. about a potential shooting in the area.
Middleton was shot after police arrived, said Special Investigations Unit spokesperson Jason Gennaro, and was taken to St. Michael’s Hospital without vital signs. He was pronounced dead shortly after.
A 25-year-old woman was also taken to hospital with serious injuries, including a gunshot wound to the leg, the SIU said.
Gennaro couldn’t confirm whether Middleton was armed when he was shot, or if officers fired their weapons at any point during the incident.
All of this is part of the investigation, Gennaro said. The SIU typically doesn’t disclose details such as this until its work is done.
“We will be looking at all the surveillance video we can gather, both in businesses and residences in the area, as well as what may have been captured on video inside of cruisers,” Gennaro said. Const. Allyson Douglas-Cook couldn’t confirm whether police found evidence related to the shooting. Police services under the SIU’s scrutiny are forbidden from disclosing details of an incident under investigation. No “subject officers” (those actively being investigated for suspected wrongdoing) have been designated as of yet, Gennaro said.
“However . . . we might be designating subject officers. We’re unsure at the moment,” he said.
The SIU is a provincial agency that investigates incidents involving police where there has been death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault. With files from Fakiha Baig and Brennan Doherty