D Andre deserved better, family says of son shot and killed by Peel police
Days after Ontario s police watchdog found no basis to lay criminal charges against the Peel Region officer who shot D Andre Campbell, his family says the 26-year-old was failed by authorities who should have protected him.
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Posted: Dec 17, 2020 7:46 AM ET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020
D Andre Campbell, 26, was shot and killed in April 2020 inside his family s home.(Submitted by Shenika Malcolm)
The family of a mentally ill man shot and killed by police in Peel Region this spring says their son deserved better.
Days after Ontario s police watchdog found no basis to lay criminal charges against the officer who shot D Andre Campbell, his family says the 26-year-old was failed by authorities who should have protected him.
SIU: No basis to proceed in criminal charges related to police-involved shooting of D Andre Campbell
by Lucas Casaletto
Last Updated Dec 14, 2020 at 11:40 am EDT
D Andre Campbell was shot by Peel police at his home on April 6 after calling 911 on himself. Image Credit; CHANGE.ORG
Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has found there is “no basis” to proceed with criminal charges in the death of 26-year-old D’Andre Campbell.
On April 6, Campbell was shot and killed by a Peel Regional Police officer while in his family’s Brampton, Ont. home.
According to the report, the SIU says officers arrived at the home and found Campbell holding a kitchen knife.
Last Updated Monday, December 14, 2020 1:30PM EST The province’s police watchdog has cleared police of criminal wrongdoing in the shooting death of a 26-year-old Black man suffering from mental illness in Brampton last April. On the evening of April 6, 2020 at 5:34 p.m., D’Andre Campbell called police to his home, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said. Campbell, who had a diagnosis of schizophrenia, told dispatchers that his mother and father “were trying to start an argument with him,” and asked for police to come their house on Sawston Circle. Yvonne Campbell, D’Andre’s mother, let the two police officers inside her home.
SIU finds no basis to proceed with criminal charges in death of D Andre Campbell
Ontario s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) says there is no basis to proceed with criminal charges in the death of 26-year-old D Andre Campbell, who was shot and killed by a Peel Regional Police officer in April while inside his family s home in Brampton, Ont.
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Posted: Dec 14, 2020 9:57 AM ET | Last Updated: December 14, 2020
D Andre Campbell, 26, was shot and killed in April 2020 inside his family s home. (Submitted by Shenika Malcolm)
Ontario s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) says there is no basis to proceed with criminal charges in the death of 26-year-old D Andre Campbell, who was shot and killed by a Peel Regional Police officer in April while inside his family s home in Brampton, Ont.
TORONTO The province’s police watchdog has cleared officers of criminal wrongdoing in the shooting death of a 26-year-old Black man suffering from mental illness in Brampton, Ont. last April. On the evening of April 6, 2020 at 5:34 p.m., D’Andre Campbell called police to his home, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said. Campbell, who had a diagnosis of schizophrenia, told dispatchers that his mother and father “were trying to start an argument with him,” and asked for police to come their house on Sawston Circle. Yvonne Campbell, D’Andre’s mother, let the two police officers inside her home.