Back in April of this year Toronto police shot and killed a man with a machette. I haven't yet heard the results of the investigation regarding that shooting.
Machete-wielding man shot dead by Toronto police - The Globe and Mail
At some point outside of the bank, a male officer and a female officer each discharged their firearms and the man was fatally struck."
Police said earlier they were summoned to the bank by a 911 call from inside about a man waving a machete.
Witnesses said later the man was confronted by police outside the building, on the southeast corner of Eglinton Avenue and Kennedy Road, and ordered to drop the weapon.
Instead he advanced toward them, they said, at which point the officers opened fire.
Man wielding machete shot dead by Toronto Police | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto Sun
TORONTO - A man armed with a machete was shot and killed by Toronto Police at a busy Scarborough intersection over the lunch hour Friday.
Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit says the deadly encounter occurred after officers responded to a TD Canada Trust branch in a plaza on the northeast corner of Kennedy Rd. and Eglinton Ave. E. around 12:45 p.m. to deal with “a suspicious male.”
“At some point, an officer discharged his pistol, fatally striking the man,” SIU spokesman Monica Hudon said in a statement released Friday afternoon.
The mortally wounded man had no vital signs when he was rushed to Sunnybrook hospital, she said.
The SIU later tweeted that both a male and female Toronto Police officer discharged their weapons in the incident.
Witnesses at the scene told the Toronto Sun the machete-wielding man was outside in front of the bank prior to the altercation with police.
A confrontation between the 50-year-old man and police began in the parking lot out after officers arrived on the scene, several bystanders said.
The confrontation ended on the sidewalk across the street — on the southeast corner of the intersection.
Officers repeatedly ordered the man to drop the machete but he refused. He then charged at a female cop brandishing the large blade prompting her to fire several shots at him, witnesses said.
