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One-year-old boy was fatally shot by police in November incident: SIU

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Ontario’s police watchdog says police gunfire killed a one-year-old boy during a violent interaction between officers and his father last year.

The Special Investigations Unit says it made the finding after receiving the results of an autopsy, and forensic analysis of bloodstains and other evidence.

The boy died during an interaction between his father and Ontario Provincial Police in Kawartha Lakes, Ont., on Nov. 26, 2020.

The father, a 33-year-old man, died from his injuries in hospital.

The SIU has said three police officers opened fire on the man after his pickup truck crashed into a cruiser, injuring an officer who was laying down a spike belt.

Police had been investigating an alleged kidnapping at the time.

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