Funeral for Toronto Police officer, Mississauga native killed in line of duty is next week

The funeral for Toronto Police constable and Mississauga native Marc Pinizzotto, who was shot to death in the line of duty early last Thursday morning, will be held one week from Wednesday.

Toronto Police brass said on Tuesday the funeral service for Pinizzotto, 43, will take place on June 24 at 1 p.m. at the Toronto Congress Centre, North Building, at 650 Dixon Rd. in Etobicoke.

Police officials said members of the public are invited to observe the funeral procession as it travels from the Kane-Jerrett Funeral Home (8088 Yonge St.) in Vaughan to the congress centre.

However, “while we appreciate the public’s support, the funeral is not open to the general public. It will include communities close to the family, police services and emergency service personnel,” Toronto Police added.

Pinizzotto, a five-year member of the Toronto Police Emergency Task Force, was with fellow ETF officers executing a search warrant at around 6:30 a.m. on June 11 in the North York area of Toronto when he was shot and killed by a suspect. The warrant was tied to a number of shootings in the Greater Toronto Area.

In total, the married father of two — he’s survived by his wife, Andrea, and two children, Daniella and Dominic — had served with the Toronto Police Service for 18 years.

Nicholas Bennett, 19, of Toronto, will be charged with first-degree murder in the death of Pinizzotto, police said earlier. He remains in hospital after being shot by police last Thursday morning.

Meanwhile, Mississauga city council will hold a special council meeting on Wednesday morning to discuss changing the name of Indian Gate Park to Const. Marc Pinizzotto Park. The park is located at 1415 Indian Road, just south of the QEW in the Lorne Park area of the city.

Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish said in a post to social media on Sunday Canada’s seventh-largest city “mourns the death” of the Mississauga-born Pinizzotto, who was also a former elite hockey player.

She said city council will vote on Wednesday “to rename the park near his childhood home,” adding late Monday night in a post to X that she’s “expecting (a) unanimous decision.”

Mississauga mourns the death of Toronto Emergency Task Force Officer in a high risk operation. Mother describes him “an incredible son, husband, father, coach and friend to many”. Council votes Wednesday to rename the park near his childhood home, CONSTABLE MARC PINIZZOTTO PARK. pic.twitter.com/ZpZBwB452U

— Mayor Carolyn Parrish (@carolynhparrish) June 14, 2026

Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw said at a news conference following Pinizzotto’s death the veteran officer was “a hero in life, not death.”

He added that, “no words can capture the impact on Marc’s family, who expected him to come home today. We as a service will support them and each other.”

The police chief said the loss of Pinizzotto “will have a profound impact on the Toronto Police family.”

Pinizzotto was the second Ontario police officer from the Peel area to be killed last week. Tarun Bali, an Ontario Provincial Police officer from Brampton, was killed while on duty last Tuesday.

Bali had been with the OPP for nearly three years and worked out of the Dufferin County detachment, just north of the GTA. He was struck and killed by a driver during an investigation near the town of Hearst, approximately 260 kilometres west of Timmins, in northern Ontario, where he had been assigned as part of a rotation.

An 18-year-old man from Hearst has been charged with first-degree murder in Bali’s death.

– With files from The Canadian Press and Ryan Rumbolt