TORONTO — Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit says two police officers were “legally justified” in fatally shooting a man outside a Toronto nightclub last year. Police had issued a Canada-wide warrant for Skene-Peters’s arrest on two charges of first-degree murder two weeks before the shooting. The two officers under investigation did not participate in SIU interviews or provide copies of their duty notes. RelatedThe SIU says a firefight broke out when officers approached Skene-Peters in his car to arrest him and that two gunshots came from inside the vehicle. The SIU concludes that police were acting in self-defence on July 25, 2015, when they shot Kwasi Skene-Peters, 21, who died from a gunshot wound to the heart.

Source: National Post June 30, 2016 15:33 UTC