Police watchdog clears OPP after 3 found dead in Huntsville home in October
Ontario’s police watchdog has found no grounds to charge an OPP commander after an armed man said he shot two women in his Huntsville home and then died by suicide during a standoff.
The incident happened on Oct. 25, according to the report by Special Investigations Unit (SIU) Director Joseph Martino, released Sunday. OPP received calls from residents near Muskoka Road 3 North and Highway 60 who reported hearing multiple gunshots.
Around 9 p.m., the man, 52, called OPP and said he had fatally shot two family members with a rifle. He also said he shot the family dog.
The man “would not put the loaded firearm away and was walking around with it and still shooting rounds. He did not want police officers to enter… He did not want to spend his life in jail and wanted to end his life,” the report said, citing 911 communications.
He said he had been hearing noises and believed his neighbours were going to kill him and his family, the report said.
“[The man] decided to pre-emptively kill his family to spare them what he believed would be their painful deaths and the hands of third-parties,” the report said.
The acting critical incident commander took charge of police operations, deploying officers to the scene. His conduct was the focus of the SIU’s investigation.
Police were called to the scene around 9 p.m. By 10:50 p.m., officers from the Emergency Response Team and Tactics and Rescue had surrounded the residence, as directed by the critical incident commander, the report said.
OPP commander acted with ‘due care,’ SIU report says
Police negotiators contacted the man by phone around 11:20 p.m. The man refused to exit the home and said he would soon die by suicide. He told police he was armed with a rifle and handguns, the report said.
Around 12:17 a.m, police deployed an armoured vehicle to breach the doors and windows of the residence. They planned to send in a drone to see what was happening inside. The man stopped communicating with negotiators around the same time.
“Shortly after, [the man], in a basement bedroom, shot himself in the head with a rifle,” the report said.
About 30 minutes later, police breached a window and deployed the drone. Footage showed two women in the living room, as well as a dog. It then showed the man in the basement. All three people and the dog showed “obvious trauma,” the report said.
Officers entered the house around 12:53 a.m. and confirmed they were dead. All appeared to have gunshot wounds to the head, the report said.
In his decision, Martino said the critical incident commander acted “with due care and regard for public safety at all times.”
The commander “had a difficult decision to make” when negotiations with the man stalled, Martino said. Though the man told police the two women were dead, he said the commander could not be sure that was the case.
“I am unable to reasonably conclude that the inspector acted hastily or recklessly when he decided that it was time to breach the windows and doors of the house to get a drone inside, even if, as it appears, [the man] decided to take his own life at that moment,” Martino wrote.
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