Occurred December 18, 2014.
A Walmart store employee was behind the store in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, when police responded to an attempted suicide-by-knife. The responding officers got into a confrontation with the man, possibly with the employee threatening them with the knife, who was then shot twice in the abdomen by the officers.
The man is now in critical condition.
From
an article:
Police were dispatched
to the store, near Kennedy Rd. and Sheppard Ave. E., after receiving a
call about a man cutting his own wrists and throat with a large butcher
knife, a police spokesperson told the Star.
“There was an
interaction between the police and the man, resulting in the man being
shot,” Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit said in a statement.
The SIU, which probes
police-related incidents involving death, serious injury and allegations
of sexual assault, is investigating the shooting.
Paramedics arrived on
scene to find the man in life-threatening condition, suffering from two
gunshot wounds to his abdomen. He was rushed to Sunnybrook Health
Sciences Centre with a police escort.
According to a Walmart
employee, who did not want to be identified, the man was behind the
store, near the loading dock area south of Bonis Ave., when the shooting
took place.
The employee was told by a store manager that the man was on his break when the shooting occurred.
Walmart. Save money. Die faster.