Police officers chat at the scene where a police officer was shot and a man is believed dead following an altercation on Georgian Street in Lindsay, Ontario, Wednesday, June 22, 2011.
Photograph by: Tyler Anderson, National Post
LINDSAY, Ont. — An Ontario police officer wounded Wednesday morning in a shootout that left another man dead is expected to recover.
The officer, identified as First Const. Keith Calderwood, 37, sustained gunshot wounds and was taken by air ambulance to hospital in Toronto. He is expected to recover, said Staff Sgt. Dan Smith of the Peterborough Lakefield Community Police.
"I can say that our officer is in stable condition," he told reporters outside St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.
A woman, presumed to be the injured officer's wife, appeared agitated when she arrived at the hospital in Toronto.
"His family is here with him at his bedside," Smith said. "They do appreciate all the support of the media."
Ontario's civilian police oversight agency, the Special Investigations Unit, said the Peterborough Lakefield Police Service was conducting an investigation at a Lindsay apartment when shots were fired.
Reports said the police were executing a drug-related warrant.
One man was fatally shot, while Calderwood sustained unspecified injuries. Reports said he was shot twice.
Smith declined to take questions or comment further, citing the SIU investigation.
The SIU investigates incidents involving police and civilians that have resulted in deaths or serious injuries.
"He was in good spirits, he was certainly relieved to see his wife before he got on the helicopter, and we had a member with him during the entire route to the hospital. He was conscious and in significant discomfort," Peterborough Lakefield Community Police Chief Murray Rodd told reporters in Lindsay.
Resident Greg Bentley said he heard about half a dozen gunshots. "It sounded like one and then some return fire," he said.
Calderwood is a member of the emergency response team, Rodd said. He has been on the force for seven years and has two daughters and a son.
Calderwood has thrown himself into the community outreach and charitable side of the job. He has been a volunteer Big Brother, a moustache-grower for "Movember" month and an organizer of a charitable golf tournament. According to a profile at the event's web site, Calderwood, known as "Caldzy," has been involved in the annual Pedal for Hope charity ride as a member of the local chapter of Cops for Cancer.
The same profile says he serves as a member of the Peterborough Lakefield Police Service's uniformed foot and bike patrol.
"He's very family- and very community-oriented, and he's there to help any time he's called upon," Rodd said.
Lindsay, with a population of just over 19,000, is about 130 kilometres northeast of Toronto.
More than three decades have passed since a police officer in Peterborough has been shot, he said. The last incident was in the 1970s when an officer, Dave Dawson, was injured while on-call at a break-and-enter. He survived multiple gunshot wounds and was able to retire, Rodd said.
With files from Jane Switzer and Adam McDowell, National Post and Postmedia News
The officer, identified as First Const. Keith Calderwood, 37, sustained gunshot wounds and was taken by air ambulance to hospital in Toronto. He is expected to recover, said Staff Sgt. Dan Smith of the Peterborough Lakefield Community Police.
"I can say that our officer is in stable condition," he told reporters outside St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.
A woman, presumed to be the injured officer's wife, appeared agitated when she arrived at the hospital in Toronto.
"His family is here with him at his bedside," Smith said. "They do appreciate all the support of the media."
Ontario's civilian police oversight agency, the Special Investigations Unit, said the Peterborough Lakefield Police Service was conducting an investigation at a Lindsay apartment when shots were fired.
Reports said the police were executing a drug-related warrant.
One man was fatally shot, while Calderwood sustained unspecified injuries. Reports said he was shot twice.
Smith declined to take questions or comment further, citing the SIU investigation.
The SIU investigates incidents involving police and civilians that have resulted in deaths or serious injuries.
"He was in good spirits, he was certainly relieved to see his wife before he got on the helicopter, and we had a member with him during the entire route to the hospital. He was conscious and in significant discomfort," Peterborough Lakefield Community Police Chief Murray Rodd told reporters in Lindsay.
Resident Greg Bentley said he heard about half a dozen gunshots. "It sounded like one and then some return fire," he said.
Calderwood is a member of the emergency response team, Rodd said. He has been on the force for seven years and has two daughters and a son.
Calderwood has thrown himself into the community outreach and charitable side of the job. He has been a volunteer Big Brother, a moustache-grower for "Movember" month and an organizer of a charitable golf tournament. According to a profile at the event's web site, Calderwood, known as "Caldzy," has been involved in the annual Pedal for Hope charity ride as a member of the local chapter of Cops for Cancer.
The same profile says he serves as a member of the Peterborough Lakefield Police Service's uniformed foot and bike patrol.
"He's very family- and very community-oriented, and he's there to help any time he's called upon," Rodd said.
Lindsay, with a population of just over 19,000, is about 130 kilometres northeast of Toronto.
More than three decades have passed since a police officer in Peterborough has been shot, he said. The last incident was in the 1970s when an officer, Dave Dawson, was injured while on-call at a break-and-enter. He survived multiple gunshot wounds and was able to retire, Rodd said.
With files from Jane Switzer and Adam McDowell, National Post and Postmedia News
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