2 Canadian police officers fatally shot while responding to disturbance call
Ontario has had two incidents of officers being killed in shootings in the past month
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Police north of Toronto said Wednesday two officers have died after being shot while responding to a disturbance call.
The South Simcoe Police Service said the shooting happened at a home in the town of Innisfil, Ontario, just before 8 p.m. Tuesday. Investigators said the suspect in the case also died.
Police said both officers were taken to a nearby hospital, where one officer died. They said the second officer later died after he was airlifted to a Toronto trauma center.
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Ontario’s police watchdog agency, the Special Investigations Unit, was called in to investigate.
Two South Simcoe police officers were killed while responding to a disturbance call on Tuesday. (Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images)
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}It is the second fatal shooting of an officer in Ontario in a month. Toronto police Constable Andrew Hong was killed on Sept. 12 while on break at a restaurant in Mississauga, Ontario.