Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is investigating the death of a 60-year-old man in Minden Hills after an interaction with police on Sunday afternoon (April 13).
Shortly after 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, a person contacted the Haliburton Highlands Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) to report they were concerned about the well-being of a man at a residence on Gelert Road between Louise Lane South and Ingoldsby Road in Minden Hills Township.
Police were told that the man had left his property with a firearm.
According to the SIU, soon after OPP officers arrived on the scene, there was an exchange of gunfire between an officer and the man, who was concealed in some bushes on the property. The man was subsequently found dead.
“His fatal injury was determined to be self-inflicted,” the SIU states.
The SIU has assigned three investigators and three forensic investigators to the case.
The SIU is urging anyone who may have information about this investigation, including video or photos, to contact the lead investigator at 1-800-787-8529 or online at www.siu.on.ca/en/news_template.php?nrid=10281. The case number is 25-PFD-140.
