Ontario's police watchdog found an Ontario Provincial Police officer (OPP) didn't commit a criminal offence by shooting in the direction of a man during an interaction that left another officer dead.
Members of the Ontario Provincial Police salute as the vehicle carrying Sgt. Eric Mueller departs following his funeral. The SIU says no charges are warranted against a surviving officer who shot at the man accused of killing him.
There were "no reasonable grounds" to believe the officer who fired his gun had broken any laws, said Joseph Martino, director of the Special Investigations Unit, in a news release late Friday afternoon. They left OPP Sgt. Eric Mueller dead and two other officers injured — with the officer under investigation, according to the SIU, suffering life-altering injuries.After 2 a.m. on May 11, the OPP's provincial communications centre got a call about a shot fired on Laval Street in Bourget, a village within the city of Clarence-Rockland.
All three officers were shot by Bellefeuille "within minutes" of their arrival, OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique said in a May 11 news conference.Some unspecified amount of time later, more officers arrived, found Mueller, Lauzon and Gamache-Asselin wounded, and were able to arrest Bellefeuille without incident, police said.Sgt.