Published Tuesday, April 6, 2021 11:01AM EDT Ontario’s police watchdog says it has no legal basis to charge a police officer who shot 62-year-old Ejaz Choudry to death in his Mississauga apartment building last summer.
Just after 5 p.m. on June 20, 2020, Choudry, who suffered from paranoia and schizophrenia, was in his apartment on Morningstar Drive with his family when his daughter called 911 that evening, requesting police and ambulance assistance, saying her father was not taking his medication. The Special Investigations Unit says Choudry’s daughter, three sons and wife then left the apartment and one of the first officers at the scene reported that Choudry was still inside, holding a large kitchen knife.
100 and Counting: Ellwood City woman sweet to her community
By Louise Carroll
For The Ledger
ELLWOOD CITY Jennie Calve Safreed never had children of her own, but youngsters in the neighborhood knew she always had a lollipop or Tootsie Roll for them.
Most of those children are now grown and have youngsters of their own, but the community has not forgotten Jennie Calve Safreed, who turned 100 on March 11.
Because of the pandemic, a proper celebration couldn t be held, but well wishes have been pouring in from family and friends on her milestone birthday.
Safreed, of Ellwood City, was born in Caulonia, a small town in Calabria Province of Italy. Safreed often told the story of how her maternal grandfather hired Nick Calve as his apprentice to learn the shoemaking trade and his daughter, Catherine Tonese, and the young apprentice fell in love. Calve asked for Catherine s hand in marriage but her father said they had to wait until Catherine was 21. Calve worked for seven years bef