Peel police link UTM suspect to earlier domestic violence call

Peel Regional Police are linking this suspect here to an earlier call for intimate partner violence. That call had come in at around 3 o'clock in the afternoon yesterday, a call out of Brampton. They had a suspect name at the time and there was a description from the scene that that person had a gun. So at that point, the 911 call came in for the intimate intimate partner violence. They had just the name through the police. They were conducting their investigation trying to speak with potential witnesses trying to locate that individual. Then a 911 call came in at this university campus the University of Toronto at Mississauga saying that that person with the same name the 19 year old allegedly involved in the intimate partner violence call was in one of the residences here and the people inside called They had information that he was armed and police say that they had also reported that the individual was acting erratically. Those folks self-evacuated so they got themselves out of the building while the suspect then according to police barricaded themselves in an upstairs bedroom. Here's Peel Police with what happened next. We quickly connected the dots between that location and this location and the suspect. That's why our response was very heavy. To get here to prevent the possibility of a mass casualty situation. It was quickly determined that no one else was inside and we slowed things down. We were able to contain the suspect to try and engage a successful resolution. Police were on scene shortly after 9 o'clock and we were able to confirm the individual was deceased at around 1.30. So police had the residents really surrounded with regular cruisers and tactical teams as well. They described trying to coax this suspect out and hearing several gunshots while that suspect was inside the residence. So at around 1 30 in the morning police officers went in. And they say that they found the 19-year-old suspect deceased. The SIU, the Special Investigations Unit, say that that individual was found to be deceased with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The SIU is part of this investigation. They always do get involved in investigations anytime there's a police interaction that results in the death or an injury of a civilian. They can report that there was no exchange of gunfire between the suspect and the police. There is no evidence of any of the police officers firing their guns. As you can imagine this would have been an incredibly Frightening scene with the students who we spoke with today. They had fears of potentially an active shooter on campus. So the way things turned out, still a tragedy in the end. The suspect here, the deceased person, 19 year old was not a student at U of T. So there are plenty of questions as well in terms of the security, at least for the students here who are reeling from what happened.