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These are the names of people who were mostly shot and mostly killed by police in Canada. If you know of others please let me know. I would also like to update the information in some of the cases. If you have information, please contact me.
William "Bill" Daughton, Jan. 2001, beaten by guards at Toronto Don Jail and denied medical attention in spite of three court orders and mounting citizens' protest.
Bill Daughton was released from jail on .
Otto Vass, 55. Beaten to death by police in the parking lot of 7-11 store at College and St.Clarens Ave, August, 2000. Names of officers involved: Officers Rob Lemaitre and Phil Duncan and Nam Le and Felipo Bevilacqua . Police make no statement as the matter is under investigation by SIU.
See newspaper articles.
On October 25, 2000 4 police officers are charged in connection with Vass' death.
Henry Masuka, Jan. 1, 2000: Holding a pellet gun, Henry Masuka demands help for his infant son at St. Michael's Hospital. Masuka dies after Emergency Task Force (ETF) officers shoot him five times. The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) says police had no choice.
John Wayne Laws, 48, Jan. 1, 2000. Severely beaten by police at 51 Division. Mr. Laws has launched a lawsuit.
Paul Murdoch, . Jan. 5, 2000: An ETF officer shoots Paul Murdoch as he brandishes scissors and a barbecue fork in his mother's basement. The SIU deems the shooting accidental.
Edmund Yu,February, 1997, shot dead by Toronto police on a TTC bus.
Lester Donaldson, 44, Jamaican. Shot dead, Toronto, August 9, 1988. Police Constable David Deviney found not guilty.
Michael Wade Lawson, 17, Jamaican. Shot dead, Mississauga, December 8, 1988. Peel Region Police Constables Anthony Melaragni and Darren Longpre found not guilty.
Sophia Cook, 23, Jamaican. Shot, alive but partially paralyzed, Toronto, Oct. 27 , 1989. Weapons charges against Constable Cameron Durham were later dropped.
Young Offender, 17, Jamaican?, Shot but still alive, Scarborough, September 19, 1991, after a police chase of a stolen minivan. Constable Richard Moore charged with criminal negligence.
Jonathan Howell, 22, Jamaican. Shot but alive and brain damaged, Etobicoke, Nov 9, 1991. Detective Constable Karl Sokolowski is charged with criminal negligence causing bodily harm and careless use of a firearm. Found guilty on firearms charge. Then Justice David Watt granted him an absolute discharge with no criminal record.
Royan Bagnaut, 19, Jamaican. Shot but alive, Toronto, December 3, 1991,
by Sgt. Douglas Lines. Lines fired several shots from his .38 on Wellesley St.
between Church and Yonge Streets.
Raymond Lawrence, 22, Jamaican. Shot dead with two bullets to the chest Toronto,
May 2, 1992 by Metro Toronto undercover Constable Robert Rice.
Rice has not been suspended. Coroner's inquest.
Luis Antonio "Tony" Vega, 28, white South American, psychiatric patient?
Shot dead by Constable Timothy Joseph Gallant, Etobicoke, December 26, 1992.
Ian Clifford Coley, 21, African-Canadian. "10th black person shot by Toronto-area police in less than five years. As many as 12 whites have been shot during the same period." Rookie constables involved are Chris Size and Rick Shank of 41 Division. SIU investigation. (From article in Ottawa Sun. by Lee Lamothe and John Schmied.)
Albert Johnson, 35, Jamaican. Shot dead, Toronto, August 26, 1979. Constables William Inglis and Walter Cargnelli acquitted.
See article from Toronto Star.
Tony Romagnuolo, 44-year-old father of three who was killed on the night of Dec. 28, 1998 outside his home in Sunderland, north of Toronto. Const. Randy Martin, 38, of York Region police, was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of Tony Romagnuolo. Also charged were Durham Const. Al Robins, 51 in the wounding of Rocco Romagnuolo, then 17, and York Const. Mike Hoskin, 41. All three officers have been acquitted of all charges.
See article Cops acquitted in father-son shooting
Stephane Drouin, 19 died after his van crashed into a hydro pole on Canada Day, July 1, 2001, during a high speed chase by police The SIU is conducting an investigation which is routine for injuries and deaths of civilians involving police.
Benoit Aube, 38. June 22, 2001, run over by police with van during a police chase of two alleged thieves. Aube was driving a bicycle at the time. The officer is not being named until an SIU investigation is completed.
Frank Hutterer, 35. October 5, 2000, shot dead by police during domestic violence when he stabbed wife and neighbours.
Tony Fleck,23. Shot by Ottawa Police with taser gun after he threatens to commit suicide with knife.
Perry Hoover, 38. Shot and wounded by police on August 31, 2000. His dog, a mastiff, was shot and killed. Neighbours say there was a lot of noise at night and that they knew it would come to something like this. SIU investigation initiated in all cases where police injure or kill with a weapon.
See the article
James Davidson, 19, Anglo-Canadian. Beaten and kicked by police July, 2000 after police chase stolen van. Complaint has been made by Davidson family.
See newspaper articles.
Jean Paul Gravelle. Pepper sprayed in his home after police chased suspect from nearby restaurant. Gravelle is suing Ottawa Police for ongoing health problems and the Police Services has in turn sued the manufacturer, Defense Technologies in Wyoming.
Charles Cooper, 34. In February 1997, Cooper, a suicidal man armed with a knife, was shot in the chest with a beanbag gun, a supposed non-lethal weapon by an Ottawa Police officer. The beanbag lodged in Mr. Cooper's heart and killed him. A tactical unit member, whose name was never released, was cleared by the SIU. a suicidal man armed with a knife, was shot in the chest with a beanbag gun, a supposed non-lethal weapon. The beanbag lodged in Mr. Cooper's heart and killed him. A tactical unit member, whose name was never released, was cleared by the SIU.
Jamal Khouri,49. Also in February 1997, was shot and killed at his LeBreton Street North home by Const. Sandra Buckley after he stabbed her partner, Const. Steve Boucher. The SIU cleared both officers.
Darwin Francisco Tellez Gonzalez, 26, In May 1996, was shot and killed in the hallway of his Lowertown apartment by police as he held a knife to the throat of a male hostage and threatened to kill him.
Wayne Johnson, 34, Jamaican. March 20, 1995, Ottawa. Police responding to call from Wayne's girlfriend, pepper spray and chase him to the nearby Rideau River where he falls in. Police fail to assist him and he drowns. His body is found a few days later by his brother and friends. No charges are laid. A CSIS investigation was called.
Terry Norris, 25. Pepper sprayed by Ottawa Police during violent scuffle at a gas station, July 1995. Died shortly afterwards.
Troy Emmerson, 24. In July 1995, was shot and killed by Const Dan Delaney after a three hour standoff outside his south-end Ottawa apartment. The shooting was controversial because Mr. Emmerson was suicidal and refused to drop the gun he was holding to his own head. The SIU ruled that the shooting was justified.
Frank Chartier, 39. In August 1992, was shot and killed by Ottawa police Const. David Nurse as Mr. Chartier attacked him with a firehose in a Lowertown apartment building. SIU ruled that the shooting was justified.
Wayne Cecil Williams, 25. In March 1992, was killed by Ottawa police Sgt. Dan Desrochers when the robbery suspect's accomplice was seen pointing what turned out to be a fake gun.
Vincent Gardner, 49, Jamaican. Shot, Ottawa, Sept 26, 1991 and admitted to Ottawa Civic Hospital. Three operations. Died in hospital without leaving Nov 16. In 1993, Constable John Monette is freed of all charges.
See Articles from the Spectrum
Earl Edwards, Jamaican. Shot from behind and wounded in the hand, Ottawa, Nov 18, 1988.
OPP Arno Giek was promptly arrested by the Ottawa police on substantial charges. Criminal charges disappear after a short delay with application of excessive delay (Askov) rule.
See also Giek is still a busy cop.
Dudley George, 38, Chippewa. Shot and killed, Ipperwash Park, September 6 , 1995 by OPP Sgt. Kenneth Deane. Deane was found guilty of criminal negligence causing death. Judge Hugh Fraser ruled that Deane knew George was unarmed. A provincial public inquiry has still not been called and the feds claim this is not their department.
Nguyen Cao Son, 50, Vietnamese immigration prisoner at Millbrook Correctional Centre near Peterborough. Friday, August 18, 2000 under suspicious circumstances after a beating from guards. Other inmates started a hunger fast in protest the following day.
David Melzer, shot by unidentified police sniper during a standoff June 2, 2000. A Coroner's inquest held in June, 2001 found that it was a suicide by police. Melzer's family is outraged.
Lucie Gelinas, 37, of Laval shot to death, June 23, 2001, by estranged boyfriend, Jocelyn Hotte, (a member of the RCMP's International Liaison and Protective Operations Directorate) on Highway 40 near Exit 15 in St. Laurent. The three men traveling with her are all injured by gunshots.
Rejean Mongeau, 44, Aug. 4, 1997 wrongfully arrested by Constable Jean-Francois Rivard. On December 21, 2000, Mongeau was awarded $6,000 damages.
''The role of police officers is to protect its citizens, not to harass
them,'' Judge Paul Mailloux said.
See the article from the Montreal Gazette.
Martin Suazo, 23, Latino, May 31, 1995, fatally shot while on his knees, about to be handcuffed and
surrounded by about a dozen MUC police officers. He and two other people
traveling in a car had been pursued by a police cruiser after a store-owner
complained that he had been robbed. Constable Michel
Garneau is the officer involved.
See article.
November 10, 2000: An out-of-court settlement has been reached in Salinas's $178,000 wrongful-death suit, the details of which are confidential. Manseau of Citizens Against Police Brutality said his group will demand a public inquiry on the Suazo shooting.
Pepper Spray: 4 deaths since 1996
Nelson Perreault, 38, April 15, 1996
Richard Whaley, 29, November 10, 1996
Luc Aubert, 43, July 16, 2000 (see below)
Sèbastien McNicoll, 23, July 18, 2000 (see below)
Luc Aubert, 43. July 16, 2000 pepper sprayed by 4 MUC police officers. Dead from apparent heart attack. Case under investigation. See article
Sebastian McNicoll, 26. July 18, 2000. Died in hospital after being pepper sprayed by police during burglary. Case under investigation. See article
Richard Ogilvie, 32, Jamaican. May 6, 1993 stopped by MUC police while entering his apartment. His left leg is broken in scuffle. Complaint filed. Results not known.
Ernst Prophete, 34, Haitian. Beaten by seven prison guards at Bordeaux jail after being arrested at Mirabel airport for parking tickets, August 2, 1993. Left unconscious, he stopped breathing and died. Coroner Jean-Noel Goupil found cause of death was heart attack. Prophete's sister, Bernadette, a nurse, called for public inquiry. Outcome not known.
Jean-Pierre Lizotte, 45, homeless Canadian. Beaten by two police officers and café bouncer on St. Laurent Street, September 5, 1999. Subsequently died in hospital from vertebrae injuries, October 16. Police services board not notified until late November. No media report until December when Montreal councillor, Marcel Savigny asked why. This case is under investigation.
Richard Barnabe, 38, Canadian. Arrested by MUC officers after short car chase, December 14, 1993. Barnabe, a cab driver, had broken a church window seeking priest. Handcuffed and with broken ribs, he lay on police station floor where he went into respiratory and cardiac arrest. He remained in a coma until his death in hospital on May 3, 1996. Four officers found guilty of assault causing bodily harm have since rejoined the force: Pierre Bergeron, Louis Samson, André Lapointe and Michel Vadeboncoeur. Barnabe's brother, Raymond, also a police officer has since resigned from MUC.
Trevor Kelly, 43, Jamaican Rastafarian. Shot and killed with one bullet by MUC officer as he allegedly, according to police, threatened the officers with a knife. Names of officers not released. Montreal Jamaican Association president, Noel Alexander, said that an eyewitness claimed there was no knife. Outcome of the investigatin is not known at this time.
Abe Hiebert, 56, Canadian. Shot and killed by Winnipeg Police Detective Sergeant Len Small during drug raid in which talwin and ritalin were seized on December 16, 1997. Hiebert was shot because he resisted with a baseball bat. An inquiry found the shooting justified.
See articles in the Winnipeg Free Press: Officers 'Responded As They Were Trained'; Police 'Prudent' In Fatal Shooting, Expert Testifies. And two more articles in our files here at Cops Drink and Smoke.
Daniel Possee, 22, Canadian. Shot and killed by Vancouver Police Constable....during drug raid in friend's apartment, May 12, 1992. His father, David Possee can be reached at sally_possee@bc.sympatico.ca or telephone 604 418-5387.
J.P. Martel, handicapped Canadian injured during SWAT raid. Martel who has no left hand and suffers chronic pain from back injuries was arrested in spring, 1997 for cultivation of marijuana. On November 12, 1997 the police returned with SWAT team who threw a concussion grenade which hit Martel's leg. In the ensuing scuffle, he sustained further injuries to his back as police tried to hold him down, not being able to handcuff this one-armed man.
Kona, Raber family dog, 5, Pitt bull. Shot dead by police at children's birthday party, January 3, 1999 during drug raid. Ron Raber was kicked by police as his dog dies in his arms. (No disrespect is intended towards Human casualties by this inclusion of a canine friend.)
Don Mayer, Caucasian. Shot twice and killed in Langley Memorial Hospital Emergency, December 17, 1999. Mr. Mayer had admitted himself for depression. When, after a lengthy wait, he became agitated and started yelling, hospital staff called the RCMP. Mayer leaves a wife and two small children. Hospital staff were told to keep quiet about it. No news. No investigation. A cover up.
Roy Sheppard, 29, Canadian. Pepper sprayed by Calgary police, February, 1996, during scuffle at group home where Sheppard, a schizophrenic lived. Died shortly after of unknown causes. Coroner reports that pepper spray could not be cause of death.
Connie Jacobs, 37, Blackfoot Nation(?) and Ty Jacobs, 9, Blackfoot Nation. Both shot and killed with one bullet by RCMP Constable Dave Voller, March, 1998. Attempts by social workers and tribal police to remove children to foster home resulted in shotgun fire exchange between Connie Jacobs and Constable Voller at the Jacobs home.
Judge Thomas Goodson's report from the inqiry states that social workers and police should be better trained but it is not his job to determine if Voller committed a crime.
See a series of articles on the Jacobs inquiry that appeared in the mainstream press.
John Peter Pavic, 31 wielding knife, shot and killed in his apartment by Edmonton police on May 16, 2001. Pavic is the third person to be shot and killed by an Edmonton police officer in the line of duty in 11 years. See the articles.
Kasim Cakmak, 37, Turkish, who suffered from schizophrenia. Pepper sprayed and handcuffed by police and a male nurse at the Alberta Mental Health Board on Friday, May 11, 2001. Stopped breathing and pronounced dead at the Alberta Hospital.
Long Duy Hoang, 28-year-old enforcer known on the streets as "Crazy Jimmy,'' was shot several times by three of six officers on Jan. 5, 2000. Hoang allegedly fired on the officers when stopped in a car on a west-end street.
Julia Johnson, 64, Canadian. Tied up by Edmonton Police during a drug raid for marijuana, January 1, 1999. Doors and windows broken by zealous police officers. No marijuana found and no charges laid.
see article from Edmonton Sun.
Indica, 9 months old, Canadian baby girl. Held in jail without food or diapers overnight March 24, 1998 after her parents, Dean and Kerry McDowell arrested for marijuana cultivation in their home.
Ken Kirk and Amy von Stackelberg, January 20, 1998 at home in Edmonton. Ken is an epileptic who uses marijuana to control his seizures and an outspoken advocate of medicinal marijuana. A constitutional challenge will be heard in Edmonton in December, 2000. See Amy's report of the raid.
Erwin Harrison Adams, 27. In 1990, officers shot and killed Adams after he threatened family members and police with knives.
Allan Thomas Symons, 53, of Lethbridge died April 29, 2001 after being shot by an officer who responded to a 911 call warning of a man carrying a large knife.
Vernon Dale Crowe, 32 dies after being pepper sprayed by unidentified police officer, July 10, 2001. The spraying assault took place inside the ambulance.
Keldon McMillan, 33, Poundmaker First Nation, May 20, 2001, shot to death by police after high speed chase on Highway 41 near Saskatoon. See articles.
Melvin Wayne Bigsky, 33, of Kinistin First Nation April 27, 2001, pepper sprayed, clubbed, shocked and shot by RCMP in an incident on Highway 41 outside Saskatoon. See articles.
Allen Patrick Bauder, 20, May 29, 2001, shot himself to death after high speed police chase. See the articles.
James Guy Bailey Jr., 28, Canadian. May 17, 2000 dead in Sydney jail cell after being arrested as "intoxicated" even though his sister called 911 twice for medical help. An investigation was launched involving the Ontario Provincial Police.
See story from Ottawa Citizen
Daryl Power(s), 23 was shot dead by police after his family called 911 for an ambulance and the hospital called police because they heard yelling in the background and decided it was a potential case for violence. The police, the Nfld Constabulary are not saying anything about name of officer, number of times shot, etc. An autopsy is going on today with OPP oversight and the family are waiting to reclaim the body. The father of the man killed wants the police charged. It was very sad to hear him speak (on cbc radio).
Norman Reid, 43, described as a mental patient was shot dead by RCMP. A judicial inquiry is underway.
Jody Crain Earlier in August, shot by Newfoundland police but survived his injuries. No details are available at the moment.
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This page updated July 15, 2001
