Cops who shot and killed armed man in Mississauga believed lives were in danger: SIU

Police officers who shot and killed an armed man during an early morning domestic call at a home in Mississauga’s west end earlier this year did so “to protect themselves and other officers” and did not commit a criminal act, the province’s Special Investigations Unit says.

In his decision, SIU Director Joseph Martino said Peel Regional Police officers who responded to the Feb. 28 call at around 12:30 a.m. in the Dundas Street West/Erin Mills Parkway area “exercised restraint and only fired their guns when their lives were in imminent peril.”

Continuing, he noted “evidence indicates the man was pointing and/or firing his gun in the direction of officers when the officers discharged their weapons.”

The 44-year-old man, whose wife had called 911 earlier to report “her armed husband was going to harm her and their children,” was pronounced dead at the scene following an exchange of gunfire, the SIU said in a June 12 news release detailing its decision.

The SIU is a civilian agency that looks into incidents in which members of the public are seriously hurt or killed during interactions with police.

In rendering his decision, Martino further stated he “found no reasonable grounds to believe Peel Regional Police officers committed a criminal offence” in connection with the late February incident, which unfolded in the area of Perran Drive and Paula Court, a block or so west of Erin Mills Parkway just south of Dundas Street West.

Map shows general area of Feb. 28, 2026 incident.

In its narrative, informed by eyewitness accounts from both police and others in addition to video footage “that largely captured the incident,” the SIU said officers who had arrived on the scene gave chase on foot to the man a short time later.

At one point during the chase, the narrative continued, the fleeing man “reached into a duffel bag he was carrying, retrieved a Glock semi-automatic handgun and dropped the bag.”

The SIU added police officers’ “repeated commands that he stop went unheeded.”

Moments later, the armed man found himself standing at the top of a residential driveway, surrounded by police officers, and he repeatedly screamed “no” to commands that he drop the gun, the SIU said.

SIU Concludes Investigation into Fatal Police-Involved Shooting in Mississauga https://t.co/UYPpua2ydI @PeelPolice

L’UES conclut une enquête sur une fusillade mortelle impliquant la police à Mississauga https://t.co/YpOch3ukJT pic.twitter.com/kICr7HUPTB

— Special Investigations Unit (@SIUOntario) June 12, 2026

As the standoff continued, an officer struck the man with a conducted energy weapon, but it did not incapacitate him, the provincial police watchdog agency said.

A brief time later, the armed man pointed his gun “in the direction” of police officers “and fired at least one shot,” the SIU said.

Following subsequent quick exchanges of gunfire, the armed man was eventually shot and fell to the ground, according to the narrative. He was pronounced dead a short time later.

In rendering his final decision, the SIU director noted that “in a highly dynamic and volatile situation, the officers continually tried to convince the (man) to drop his firearm (and he) refused at every turn.”

Martino concluded, in part, that “one cannot fault the subject officials for choosing to meet an immediate risk of death with a resort to lethal force of their own.

“For the foregoing reasons, there is no basis for proceeding with criminal charges in this case.”