TORONTO - A Toronto police officer has been cleared in an incident in which a 52-year-old man was shot and wounded in the leg and chest.
Ontario's Special Investigations Unit says there are "no reasonable grounds" to charge the officer after he fired twice at a man who was advancing toward him with a knife.
The agency says the unnamed officer was one of two who had gone to an apartment near Kipling Avenue on Nov. 4, to accompany the man's daughter while she collected her belongings.
It says the man argued with his daughter, then went to the kitchen where the officer heard him shuffling though utensils and then saw him with a knife in his hand.
The officer drew his gun and repeatedly ordered the man to drop the knife but the SIU says the man did not comply and the officer -- backed against a wall -- fired his weapon.
Acting SIU director Joseph Martino says the officer believed his life was in danger and was legally justified in shooting the man.
