An hours-long standoff between Hamilton police and a man they say killed two tenants at a home in Stoney Creek ended after the man was killed in “an exchange of gunfire” with a police officer, according to the Special Investigations Unit (SIU).
Police described the two people killed by the man as a “hard-working,” young couple who “were engaged to be married” — and were shot as they were “fleeing the residence” following a “landlord-tenant dispute.”
A 27-year-old woman, who police said worked as an educational assistant for a local Catholic school board, and a 28-year-old man, who worked as an electrician in Hamilton, were pronounced dead after