Toronto police cleared in New Year’s death of man who fell from high-rise balcony - BERITAJA

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The Special Investigations Unit has cleared Toronto police officers of immoderate criminal wrongdoing successful the decease of a 27-year-old man who fell from a high-rise pavilion connected New Year’s Eve.

In a study released Friday, the agency concluded location are nary reasonable grounds to judge immoderate serviceman committed a criminal offence successful relationship pinch the man’s death.

According to the report, the incident began about 11:30 p.m. connected Dec. 31, 2025, erstwhile a female called 911 reporting she had been assaulted wrong her flat adjacent Jane Street and Wilson Avenue.

The female fled to a neighbour’s portion and told constabulary the man had been drinking and utilizing drugs.

Officers arrived astatine the neighbour’s flat about 11:40 p.m. and saw the female had visible injuries, including a achromatic eye, marks connected her cervix and cuts to her hands.

Police past headed complete to the man’s apartment, knocked connected the doorway and called for a consequence aggregate times. No 1 replied.

They remained extracurricular while moving to summation introduction pinch the thief of Toronto Community Housing.

Surveillance video reviewed by investigators shows the man fell from the building astatine about 11:42 p.m., striking the crushed below. There was nary 1 other extracurricular astatine the time.

Officers were unaware of the autumn and continued efforts to participate the apartment. Shortly aft midnight, they were provided a cardinal and went inside, wherever they recovered humor but nary motion of the man.

Moments later, an serviceman stepped onto the balcony, looked down and saw his assemblage connected the ground.

Police rushed outside, wherever the man was recovered unresponsive successful the snow. Paramedics arrived and he was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

A postmortem introspection wished he died from blunt unit injuries accordant pinch a autumn from height.

The SIU says officers were astatine the flat doorway for only a short clip earlier the autumn occurred and were acting wrong their duties arsenic they responded to the call.

The SIU had assigned 3 investigators and 2 forensic investigators to the case. The agency yet recovered nary grounds to laic criminal charges and concluded the investigation.