TORONTO — Ontario’s police watchdog has decided not to charge two officers who shot and killed a 70-year-old man in a Cobourg hospital room last year, ruling police had reason to believe their lives and those of the other hospital patients were in danger. The officers fired a combined total of 30 shots at the man in response, killing him. Hospital staff called police when the man told them she had shot herself, but they couldn’t find the gun. When he didn’t comply, the officers fired a volley of shots, according to the SIU. Loparco said it was reasonable for the officers to believe that their lives, or the lives of others in the hospital, were in danger.

Source: National Post November 21, 2018 22:26 UTC