This was close to being another GTA cop funeral.

So close.

Not only was a plainclothes Peel Regional Police officer allegedly shot at multiple times early Sunday morning, sources said, but there were more bullets left in the chamber that were not able to be fired as a result of a hero cop’s move to rescue his at-risk partner.

Witnesses, who said they heard at least three gunshots, also said a Peel cop drove his squad car into the alleged shooter, which effectively ended the threat.

Just in the nick of time.

“We are very fortunate that this situation did not end in tragedy,” said Peel police Deputy Chief Marc Andrews. “The past several weeks have been incredibly difficult for the policing community and incidents of this nature can have a lasting impact on those involved and those who witness them.”

This occurred at 3:29 a.m. on Sunday, when members of Peel’s Strategic Tactical Enforcement Policing (STEP) unit were called after patrol officers noticed a man wearing a mask leaving the Million Dollar Restaurant on Torbram Rd.

Witnesses allegedly that he was seen jumping fences in an attempt to flee. At that point, popular Const. Miguel Bona tried to talk to the man but after no success yelled “police.” After a short foot chase, a source said, the suspect allegedly “turned and discharged multiple rounds in his direction.”

Loaded Glock allegedly recovered

Soon after, a second officer, who sources said was veteran Const. Tyler Satino, arrived in his squad car and “the suspect was located and struck by the vehicle” in which “the firearm fell from his hand.” Sources said police did not return fire during the exchange.

Bona arrested the suspect and a “fully loaded Glock 23, 40-calibre firearm was recovered,” said a witness.

”We are very proud of these officers, who handled themselves in a very dangerous situation … They are heroes,” Andrews said.

Isaiah Bachoo, 24, of Brampton, was arrested and charged with discharging a firearm with intent and possession of a loaded prohibited or restricted firearm. Police said they were also “consulting with the Crown regarding additional and more serious charges.”

“At the time of his arrest, Bachoo was subject to multiple court-ordered firearms prohibitions stemming from previous firearm-related convictions in Thunder Bay in 2023,” police said in a news release, “including a lifetime prohibition from possessing prohibited or restricted firearms, prohibited devices and ammunition, as well as a 10-year prohibition from possessing any firearm.”

Police said the suspect was treated at a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries and released into police custody. They said two officers were treated at the scene for minor injuries.

It is still undetermined how many shots were fired. The scene, which includes several businesses that had no involvement in this incident, was still cordoned off. Sources said the accused is known to police and was charged in a Sept. 6, 2021, shooting,  but those charges were later withdrawn.

In this case, the allegations have not been tested in court. This accused is considered to be innocent until proven guilty in court.

Lucky no one was killed

But they were relieved the officers and the person they arrested were not wounded in what could have easily been something similar to what happened on June 11 in North York, where Toronto Police Const. Marc Pinizzotto was shot as an Emergency Task Force team exercised a search warrant. The alleged shooter, Nicholas Bennett, 19, was also shot by accompanying officers and was recovering in a hospital while facing a first-degree murder charge.

The funeral for Pinizzotto, 43, is set for Wednesday.

A Toronto Police officer last week also found himself pinned by a car on a concrete barrier on the Millwood Rd. bridge. The car was allegedly driven by a 12-year-old boy who was charged with attempted murder.

That followed the June 9 slaying of OPP Const. Tarun Bali, who died after being struck by a car being driven by a man who had allegedly escaped custody from a hospital in Hearst, Ont., where he was detained under the Mental Health Act.

Peel Regional Police Association president Adrian Woolley said that while their members “answer the call without hesitation … courage alone is not enough” and officers need laws that “protect them and the public they serve.

“Today, many officers are questioning whether the job is worth their lives after watching two of their brothers in uniform murdered last week,” he said. “That is the harsh and tragic reality facing policing in Canada. It is a reality that has been created by years of failed policies from the federal Liberal government that have weakened the justice system and emboldened violent offenders.”

This has been a bad month. Two dead cops, two funerals and two more who narrowly escaped the grave.

Four police officers dead or nearly dying in June is terrifying.

jwarmington@postmedia.com

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By Catherine McDonald  Global News

A Toronto woman who threw her four-month-old son into the garbage chute, killing him, in November 2024 has been found not criminally responsible (NCR) due to a mental disorder.

A forensic psychiatrist who assessed Karessa Edwards testified the 30-year-old was psychotic at the time and put her son in the garbage chute in response to command auditory hallucinations.

Sitting in the prisoner’s box wearing a green prison-issued sweatsuit, Edwards listened quietly as her lawyer told Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly his client was pleading not guilty to second-degree murder due to a mental disorder.

Edwards then sat quietly, listening to assistant Crown prosecutor Liz Jackson read out a disturbing agreed statement of facts.

It was Nov. 20, 2024, around 11:25 a.m. when police were called to the multi-storey residential building at 855 Roselawn Ave. by the baby’s father, Sadiki Bacchas.

According to the facts, Bacchas had gone out to run some errands around 8:20 a.m., leaving the baby alone with Edwards in unit 801 where the couple and their baby, Azuri Bacchus, lived.

Around 10:20 a.m., Edwards carried Azuri to the garbage room on the eighth floor and intentionally threw him down the chute to the garbage compactor in the basement of the building.

After throwing Azuri down the garbage chute, Edwards then climbed or jumped down the chute herself, causing abrasions to her arm and back.

Around 10:30 a.m., Bacchas called Edwards to inquire about Azuri.

The baby’s mother advised him that she didn’t know where Azuri was and suggested that perhaps the baby was with her mother, the baby’s grandmother.

Bacchas called the child’s grandmother who advised Azuri was not with her.

At 10:40 a.m., Bacchas arrived back at the Roselawn Avenue apartment and attended the couple’s eighth-floor unit where Edwards continued to claim that she didn’t know where Azuri was but believed he was in the garbage chute.

Bacchus then went down to the garbage room in the basement and located the baby items before calling 911.

When police arrived, Azuri was found without vital signs. The boy was rushed to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

An autopsy revealed the cause of death was either blunt impact injuries sustained from being thrown down the garbage chute, a consequence of compression by the compactor mechanism in the garbage bin, or by blunt impact injuries inflicted before the infant was thrown down the garbage chute.

The facts state that when Edwards threw her son down the chute, she knew doing so could kill him and that it did cause his death.

Forensic psychiatrist Mark Pearce, who met with Edwards at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in January 2023, testified she suffers from schizophrenia which started around 2020, although some mental health symptoms began appearing in 2015, when she had her first child.

Pearce said Edwards likely demonstrated all the symptoms of schizophrenia including hearing voices, delusions, disorganized thinking and disorganized behaviour.

Pearche explained he came to his conclusions after looking at police body-worn camera from the time of her arrest, medical records from jail and from Sunnybrook Hospital, where she spent a week after the arrest.

Pearche also observed a transcript between Edwards’ mother and the baby’s father from a prior criminal proceeding.

“She’s reported hallucinations, others have seen her talking to herself, she’s reported paranoid delusional beliefs. She’s being monitored. Her thinking was very scattered as seen on police body cam at the time of her arrest, and disorganized behaviour given she was throwing random things out in the weeks leading up to the offence,” the psychiatrist added.

“She said she was hearing voices through the walls for weeks or months. Ultimately, she heard command hallucinations telling her to dispose of the victim, the baby in the garbage chute,” he explained.

Pearce said at the time of her arrest, Edwards had a blank stare on her face. “One officer wrote, ‘I’m not even sure she’s aware what’s going on,'” Pearce told court.

“To paramedics, she reported hearing voices in the walls since moving into the building, I think it was in the summer of that year. On body cam footage, she seemed quite perplexed, moody — which doesn’t mean she was psychotic. She mentioned about gangs and being followed and then she was brought to hospital,” Pearce explained.

Once she arrived in hospital, Pearce said she told doctors had been brought to hospital “based on traumatic experiences” which “you cannot really see.”

She also claimed that “nothing” had occurred that day.

Doctors at Sunnybrook diagnosed her with a primary psychotic illness. “Everyone there thought she was very psychotic as well,” Pearce said.

Pearce said Edwards was also treated by a psychiatrist at Vanier Institute for Women.

He said once prescribed anti-psychotic medication, it helped her symptoms and when she didn’t take them properly, the symptoms reappeared.

The psychiatrist also said that Edwards had likely been suffering from psychotic symptoms dating back to 2022, given she had been involuntarily hospitalized three times.

“She was held in hospital a couple of times but only for a few days, given her age. Her mother had concerns about her behaviour, (and) had obtained a Form 2 compelling an assessment in hospital. As a result, she was put on a Form 1 and was kept in for 72 hours,” Pearce explained.

Hospital officials didn’t think she was an acute risk to others.

“She had a stable childhood, went to college, steady employment before the onset of the illness,” said Pearce, who added her daughter had called 911 about her behaviour.

The psychiatrist concluded at the time she threw Azuri in the garbage chute, Edward’s symptoms were quite severe and she was responding to a command hallucination to hurt a child. “She didn’t know the wrongfulness of her behaviour. I thought she met the threshold for NCR.”

During cross-examination, Edward’s lawyer Christien Levien asked Pearce if he thought postpartum depression played a role in the offence. Pearce said he believed it contributed.

“The stress of being a mother, not sleeping well. That contributed as well. Cannabis likely contributed to some extent as well. Those were the main stressors,” he added.

Sadiki Bacchus sat in court as Jackson read his victim impact statement and a letter he penned to Azuri.

“My son, I only have pictures now … a frozen piece of time to remind me of how it was when you were here and mine. I see your beautiful eyes each time I close mine. How I wish I could change the course of time,” Bacchas wrote.

Before being sent off to begin getting treatment at a psychiatric hospital, Kelly asked Edwards if she had anything to say to the court. Edwards declined.

Kelly’s voice cracked as she told court Azuri was a vulnerable child who could not defend himself.

“You will now be put before the Ontario Review Board who will oversee your future,” said Kelly, who encouraged Edwards to comply with her psychiatric treatment and to take her medication.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11837567/toronto-mother-threw-baby-boy-to-death-not-criminally-responsible/

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An Ontario judge has ruled in favour of a Toronto driver who was issued a traffic ticket more than 18 years ago after he found that the trial was unfair and the previous judge’s comments were “unbecoming.”

Court documents released following the appeal at Ontario’s Court of Justice last week show that Neville Greene was charged on June 4, 2007 after a Toronto police officer testified that he went through the intersection of Jane Street and Sheppard Avenue West on a red light.

Greene pleaded not guilty, claiming there was construction in the area at the time which might have impeded normal traffic flow. The trial was held before Justice of the Peace J. Frederick in Toronto on July 10, 2008 and Greene was convicted.

In delivering his decision at the time, Frederick said: “The officer was clear, concise and convincing of all the elements of the offence and the observations he made. There will be a finding of guilt and there will be a fine imposed.

”But Justice Brock Jones, who oversaw the appeal hearing last Wednesday, raised issues with Frederick’s conclusions, saying that the reasons for conviction were inadequate and failed to address any of the central issues raised at trial.

“It was not explained to me why it took nearly 18 years for the appeal to be heard, other than that the paperwork may have been ‘lost’ for a long time. Nevertheless, for the reasons that follow, I granted the appeal,” he said.

‘This isn’t ‘Law and Order,’’ judge tells appellant

Greene represented himself at the 2008 trial and during the cross-examination of the Toronto police officer he attempted to present photographs of the intersection where the alleged traffic violation took place.

Jones said the photos, which were taken a day after Greene was stopped, had “impeachment value.” He explained that Greene was trying to get the officer to respond to the suggestion that construction in the area may have impacted traffic that day, given that the officer previously testified that there was no construction taking place.

When Greene asked the judge how he could present the evidence properly, he responded by saying “this isn’t ‘Law and Order’” and that he could testify later if he wanted to.

During his testimony, Greene said he entered the intersection on a green light but was caught behind another car in the crossing as the light turned yellow. He agreed with the prosecutor that the light may have turned red while he was in the intersection, but not before he entered.

When Greene attempted to enter the photographs into evidence a second time, the judge ruled that they were inadmissible because they were taken after the offence took place.

Judge did not address or analyze appellant’s testimony ‘at all’

In awarding the appeal, Jones said the reasons for convicting Greene in 2008 fell “woefully short” of legal precedents, and even “more concerning” was that the officer’s evidence was accepted and the appellant’s was not.

“The Justice of the Peace did not address or analyze the appellant’s testimony at all, even though it could raise a reasonable doubt on an essential element of the offence: whether the appellant proceeded into the intersection when the light was red,” Jones wrote.

Jones went on to say that while courts have to prioritize efficiency amid heavy case loads, they also have a duty to ensure that self-represented individuals have a fair trial as the process is “entirely alien” to members of the public who are not legally trained.

“I observe that sarcastic remarks uttered by a Justice to a legally untrained person who is presumed innocent are unbecoming and may bring the administration of justice into disrepute,” he said.

Jones said he granted the appeal and vacated Greene’s conviction.

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