An OPP investigation into the 2018 fatal shooting of a man in Corner Brook has found no criminal conduct on the part of the RNC officer involved.
27-year-old Jorden McKay was shot at his home on Carriage Lane in the west coast city on November 27, 2018. The officer involved in the shooting was new to the police service at the time.
The Department of Justice called the OPP in to investigated soon after the incident. SIRT-NL agreed to review the investigation soon after Director Mike King was appointed in September of 2019.
According to SIRT-NL’s review of the OPP investigation, RNC officers were called to the victim’s home after he allegedly breached conditions not to contact his former girlfriend. According to the officers, he approached them in a threatening and aggressive manner with a knife after he was allowed to go back inside his apartment to “turn off the oven.”
One of the officers ordered the victim to drop the knife and fired one shot, striking McKay in the forearm. The bullet travelled through his shoulder and into his rib cage. He was pronounced dead in hospital.
SIRT-NL says it found no evidence of bias, tunnel vision or lack of objectivity in the OPP’s investigation which found no criminal wrongdoing in the incident.
