Ontario’s police watchdog has cleared Hamilton police of wrongdoing in the death of a 62-year-old man who barricaded himself in a home on Princess Street last summer.

The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) — the independent agency that investigates the conduct of police officers — said the man died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the torso following an “hours-long” encounter with police back in August, in a report released on Friday. Crime

SIU investigating death of 62-year-old man after lengthy Hamilton police interaction with barricaded person

Hamilton Spectator

On the morning of Aug. 1, the SIU report said police received a call from “a person in crisis” who claimed to have explosive devices that he would set off unless a negotiator came to his house in the area of Ba

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