Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating after police shot a 48-year-old Tweed man in a remote hunting cabin in Mamora and Lake on Thursday afternoon (December 14).
The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is a civilian law enforcement agency, independent of the police, that conducts criminal investigations into circumstances involving police and civilians that have resulted in serious injury, death, or allegations of sexual assault.
At around 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Central Hastings Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers were called to the cabin off Twin Sister Lakes Road, around 20 kilometres north of Mamora, for a report of a man making threats. When officers arrived, the man barricaded himself inside the cabin. OPP tactical officers, the canine unit, and crisis negotiators were sent to the scene.
After an interaction between police and the man, an officer shot a less-lethal firearm — a class of weapon that includes conducted energy weapons and guns that fire rubber and plastic bullets. The man then shot at police, and an officer responded by shooting the man with a firearm.
The man was arrested and taken to Kingston hospital via ambulance with a non-life-threatening injury. Jason Bedore, a 48-year-old man from Tweed, faces multiple charges including attempted murder.
The SIU has assigned three investigators and three forensic investigators to the case. Anyone who may have information about this investigation, including video or photos, should contact the SIU at 1-800-787-8529 or online at siu.on.ca.
