Two Hamilton police officers who shot and killed Erixon Kabera last November won't be criminally charged, says the Special Investigations Unit (SIU).

On Nov. 9, two officers shot as many as 24 bullets at Kabera in his apartment building hallway before he collapsed, Ontario's police watchdog said in its report released Friday. He had been holding a replica hand gun, which officers mistook for a real firearm.

Kabera, a 43-year-old father of three, was taken to the Hamilton General Hospital with eight gunshot wounds, including some in his back, and pronounced dead in the early hours of Nov. 10.

"On my assessment of the evidence, there are no reasonable grounds to believe that either subject official committed a criminal offence in connection with the complainant's death," said SIU direct

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