TORONTO - A Toronto police officer who shot and wounded a bank robbery suspect in late March has been cleared of any wrongdoing.
Officers responded to a call about a man armed with a bomb who was trying to rob a Royal Bank branch in northeast Toronto.
Police say the suspect ignored commands to put down the device and, instead, advanced on an officer at a steady pace outside the bank.
The officer fired three shots, wounding the suspect.
The SIU says there was no way the officer could have known the bomb was fake and it would have been unwise to have assumed it was.
The SIU investigates all cases of serious injuries and deaths involving police in Ontario.
