{"id":39455,"date":"2020-11-29T09:56:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T14:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=39455"},"modified":"2020-11-29T09:56:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T14:56:24","slug":"siu-investigating-death-of-little-current-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/29\/siu-investigating-death-of-little-current-man\/","title":{"rendered":"SIU Investigating Death of Little Current Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ontario Provincial Police Manitoulin<\/strong> &#8211; On Friday November 27, 2020 at approximately 10:40 p.m. members of the Manitoulin Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a request for assistance by the United Chiefs in Council of Manitoulin Police Service (UCCM) request for assistance regarding a domestic dispute.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The occurrence escalated to a barricaded person response. During the course of the investigation the person inside the residence was located deceased.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the interaction, the Province&#8217;s Special Investigation Unit (SIU) has invoked their mandate and have commenced an investigation. Any further inquiries regarding this investigation must be directed to the SIU media coordinator, Monica Hudon at <a href=\"mailto:monica.hudon@ontario.ca\">monica.hudon@ontario.ca<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Special Investigations Unit<\/strong> &#8211; The province\u2019s Special Investigations Unit is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 43-year-old man in Little Current, located on Manitoulin Island.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary information suggests the following:<br \/>\n\u2022 At approximately 10:45 p.m. on November 27, 2020, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers were dispatched to a home in the area of Little Current in regard to a domestic incident. They had information that a man had possession of a weapon and had barricaded himself in a residence.<br \/>\n\u2022 Officers contained the area and made attempts to contact the man.<br \/>\n\u2022 Some time later, officers entered the residence and located the man. He had sustained a gunshot wound. The man was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the preliminary information, the gunshot wound is believed to have been self-inflicted. Three investigators and one forensic investigator have been assigned to the case.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario Provincial Police Manitoulin &#8211; On Friday November 27, 2020 at approximately 10:40 p.m. members of the Manitoulin Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a request for assistance by the United Chiefs in Council of Manitoulin Police Service (UCCM) request for assistance regarding a domestic dispute. &nbsp; The occurrence escalated to a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 03:42:16","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\/39455","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39456,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39455\/revisions\/39456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}