Ontario’s police watchdog will investigate the circumstances surrounding the 2015 death of a 20-year-old First Nations man to determine if there was any misconduct by Thunder Bay police.
The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) confirmed it has assigned two investigators to the case involving Arron Loon.
A media statement from the SIU indicates the Thunder Bay Police Service received a call on the evening of March 24, 2015, from someone who had been drinking with Loon in Junot Avenue Park. The next morning, police responded to a call about a non-responsive person in the park, and found Loon dead. His obituary says he was the