Details released of dramatic police shootout with murder suspect near Timmins, Ont.
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Ontario's Special Investigation Unit has cleared police actions in a shootout with a murder suspect last June that left one police officer with bullet wounds to his neck.
Ontario's Special Investigation Unit has cleared police actions in a shootout with a murder suspect last June that left one police officer with bullet wounds to his neck.
The June 12 incident ended on an island on Night Hawk Lake with the capture of armed murder suspect Lucas MacDonald.
Officers with the Ontario Provincial Police tactical response unit (TRU), including boats and a helicopter, checked the area in the morning but were unable to find MacDonald.
"The complainant (MacDonald) was operating a canoe on the lake and was armed with a .22-caliber rifle," the SIU said in its incident narrative.
"At one point, he came ashore near a camp on the southwest side of the lake."
He was spotted by a civilian, who alerted police about a suspicious man who was operating a canoe on the lake despite bad conditions.
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