Toronto cop who shot schizophrenic man that stabbed his partner cleared by SIU

The province’s police watchdog cleared a Toronto police officer who shot and killed a 28-year-old schizophrenic man who had stabbed his partner in the back last May.

On the night of May 22, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) says police and paramedics were called to a condo tower at Yonge and Merton streets for an emotional distressed male.

Dispatchers told police that a woman reported her adult son suffering from schizophrenia struck her on her face.

Police arrived at the third floor unit and knocked on the door, asking the man still inside if he was okay.

After a few minutes, the officers told the SIU they became concerned that the man inside could be harming himself, so one of them unlocked the door and entered the unit.