Man fell from Gardiner Expressway while fleeing police after carjacking: SIU
Toronto police were in pursuit of Rolls Royce and BMW after alleged armed carjacking in Don Mills
Ontario's police watchdog said Tuesday a suspect in an armed carjacking fell from the elevated Gardiner Expressway and suffered serious injuries while fleeing Toronto police.
The investigation shut down the normally-busy eastern Gardiner, not far from the Don Valley Parkway juncture, on Tuesday morning.
Toronto police responded to a carjacking call around 11 p.m. on Monday in the Shops at Don Mills area, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said in a news release. A Rolls Royce and BMW were involved in the incident, it said.
Toronto police confirmed they spotted the vehicles a short time later on the Don Valley Parkway. The SIU said police put a roadblock up further west on the Gardiner, which led to a suspect in the BMW stopping and running away from police.
Moments later, the SIU said the suspect fell from the Gardiner onto Lake Shore Boulevard E. below.
Toronto paramedics said they were called to lower Jarvis Street around 11:50 p.m. and transported an adult man to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.
The other suspects got away, Toronto police spokesperson Laura Brabant said in an email. She said she did not have information on how many suspects were involved in total.
The SIU is asking anyone with information about the incident to contact investigators.
The SIU is an independent agency that investigates the conduct of police officers in incidents that may have resulted in death, serious injury, the discharge of a firearm or allegations of sexual assault.
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