{"id":39156,"date":"2020-11-20T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=39156"},"modified":"2020-11-20T16:51:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T21:51:47","slug":"siu-continues-investigation-into-fatal-shooting-on-manitoulin-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/20\/siu-continues-investigation-into-fatal-shooting-on-manitoulin-island\/","title":{"rendered":"SIU Continues Investigation into Fatal Shooting on Manitoulin Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The province\u2019s Special Investigations Unit is continuing to investigate the circumstances yesterday on Manitoulin Island that led to the deaths of an Ontario Provincial Police officer and a 60-year-old man.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The preliminary information indicates the following:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>On November 19, 2020, two OPP officers attended a property on Hindman Trail in Gore Bay after the property owner reported the presence of an unwanted man.<\/li>\n<li>Soon after arriving, officers located the man &#8211; who was inside a trailer &#8211; and there was an interaction.<\/li>\n<li>At approximately 11 a.m., there was an exchange of gunfire between Constable Marc Hovingh and the man, resulting in both individuals being struck.<\/li>\n<li>They were transported to hospital where both men succumbed to their injuries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Three investigators and two forensic investigators have been assigned to the case. Post-mortems are scheduled for tomorrow morning in Toronto. The other officer on scene did not sustain any injuries.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The SIU is urging anyone who may have information about this investigation to contact the lead investigator at 1-800-787-8529. The Unit is also urging anyone who may have any video evidence related to this incident to upload that video through the SIU website.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The province\u2019s Special Investigations Unit is continuing to investigate the circumstances yesterday on Manitoulin Island that led to the deaths of an Ontario Provincial Police officer and a 60-year-old man. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2777],"class_list":["post-39156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district","tag-gore-bay-opp"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 22:23:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39157,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39156\/revisions\/39157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}