Investigation
Self-inflicted injuries in police presence resulting in death
Date Published: 2020-11-10
Province: Nova Scotia
Police Agency: Halifax Regional Police
Summary
Halifax Regional Police (HRP) referred to this file to SiRT at 2a.m. on March 30, 2020. The referral involved the police responding to a call of a young man, the Affected Party (AP), who suffered knife wounds and had died at the hospital. SiRT began an investigation that day and concluded it on August 20, 2020. The following evidence, obtained during the investigation, was reviewed in its entirety and considered in the preparation of this report: a Subject Officer’s (SO2) notes and his subject behaviour-officer response (SBOR) report, notes and supplementary reports of eight witness officers (WOs), the statement of a civilian witness (CW) the AP’s wife, the report prepared and photographs taken by a Forensic Investigation Section officer (FIS), the call history and police radio transmissions, Nova Scotia usage guidelines for Conducted Energy Weapon (CEW) and (CEW) reports, autopsy photographs, the autopsy report and certificate of death prepared by the Medical Examiner. SOl did not pro…