Gunsmith shot by police Ontario
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PORT RYERSE – Witnesses, neighbours and friends have identified a Norfolk man killed in an interaction with Toronto police this week as gunsmith Rodger Kotanko, 70. Mark Donnell of Simcoe, a life-long friend of Kotanko’s, arrived at the scene with a friend around noon Wednesday minutes after a shooting occurred at Kotanko’s home at 467 Port Ryerse Road immediately north of Highway 6. Man shot in police incident was gunsmith, neighbour says Close sticky video Neither police nor the Special Investigations Unit have released the man’s name but an online search indicates Kotanko was associated with the residence. Donnell said he and his friend had plans to go hunting in a bush beside Kotanko’s property. As he pulled up, Donnell said he noticed a heavy police presence in the area. Thursday morning, Donnell said he watched paramedics wheel Kotanko out of the home on a stretcher. Donnell said paramedics were performing CPR as they did so. A friend of the Kotanko family, Donnell said he has it from “a reliable source” that Kotanko was shot once in the neck and three times in the chest. Donnell said Kotanko’s wife Jessie was in the front yard, distraught, crying and yelling her husband’s name. “I wanted to go see her,” Donnell said. “But they wouldn’t let me. Police told me very unpolitely to leave. I watched them bring him out on a stretcher. Then they kicked me out.” In a social media post on Wednesday, Toronto police said officers were executing a firearms search warrant at the time of the shooting. Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) shared details of the incident Wednesday night. “At about 12:04 p.m., in the course of Toronto Police Service officers executing a search warrant, shots were fired near a residence in the area of Highway 6 and Highway 24,” an SIU news release said. “One man is deceased.” This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content The SIU is called to investigate anytime a civilian in Ontario is injured or killed during an interaction with police. The SIU says three investigators and two forensic experts have been assigned to the case. In a follow-up email Thursday, SIU spokesperson Kristy Denette said the interaction involved members of the Toronto police service. She said the Norfolk OPP were not involved. Denette added a post mortem was conducted Thursday morning. Denette says a “subject official” has been identified for the pending investigation along with “three witness officials.” Fraser Pringle lives a couple doors down from the Kotanko residence. He and Kotanko have known each other for years, Pringle said. “They shot a gunsmith,” Pringle said Thursday. “You have to put that in there. He has guns because he’s a gunsmith. He had a customer with him too. That’s what Rodger has always done. He was a gunsmith. He kept to himself. He was harmless.” Dan Nagy, owner of Eli’s Guns and Archery in Simcoe, was stunned to learn of Kotanko’s death. In an email Thursday, Nagy said Kotanko was a friend and a mentor. “Rodger was instrumental in teaching me my trade of gunsmithing,” Nagy said. “Everyone in the firearms community will mourn his loss. He was well-known and a well-respected community member and always under-charged his customers for the work he did. “Those who knew Rodger knew he was as threatening as a toothless puppy or a declawed kitten. This situation causes great concern for all legal firearm owners.” Donnell said Kotanko had expertise in the care and upkeep of both long arms and handguns. He said Kotanko occasionally did work for members of the Norfolk OPP. |
It will be very interesting to see if any more details come out about this story. Seems like he was a well respected nice guy.
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The person said there was a customer with him at the time. So perhaps the police burst in, saw a gun in his hands and opened fire? I sure hope they were wearing body cameras because you know they will all be given time to get their stories straight before they have to submit anything. |
He has a gun!! Shoot him!!! What more would we expect from Toronto Police?
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All we know here is that he was a gunsmith , and that he also did work for the police, nothing more.
it will be interesting to hear the facts when they come out. Cat |
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Heart felt condolences go out to his wife and family. Did the Toronto Police not know he was a gunsmith? Has he ever caused any problems? Maybe after the investigation we shall find the truth.
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Apparently they had a no knock warrant. But the bigger question is what were Toronto Police doing there? No jurisdiction there as far as I know...anyone who knows better please jump in, but I thought it was OPP who would have to be involved.
A 70 year old gunsmith in his own home with wife and customer present sure poses an existential threat to public safety though. I'm going to just throw this out, that by the time the facts come out and an inquiry is done, years will have passed and people will have forgotten the whole thing. Remember that guy in Nova Scotia who shot all those people, what was his name? When the RCMP sent out a warning by Twitter and shot up a fire station? Yeah. People barely remember that, and the inquiry is still ongoing. |
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Well, c'mon guys, be reasonable. You have to 'give things time' so the involved parties manage to get to retirement with a full pensionmayerthorpehighriver....:thinking-006:
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My Lord how deep this place has sunk.... Cat |
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Why did they have a no knock warrant?
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Generally it means there is either a 911 call from someone in the house or from someone close by stating there is imminent danger or threat to life, they have been called there many times before and the 'suspect' is well known to the Officers Or any of another hundred reasons but most generally are the reasons noted |
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Police statement said they were executing a firearms search warrant, SIU described it as a raid, which would confirm they didn't knock when executing warrant. Toronto Police were involved, not local PD.
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I wonder if the police would have body mounted cameras on an operation like this. At first whiff, something smells fishy on this.
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I'd like to know if the customer has made any kind of a statement.
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Is this a repeat of the Marstar case? Law enforcement seems to attract some heavy hands lately.
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100 % speculation until the facts are presented.
If i was home and someone booted my front door in carrying a weapon i would probably put a hole in him....did he shoot ? We don't know. |
my condolences to the family
the facts are the facts but I don't think that we will even know the truth about what happened unless it becomes main stream with the media. I would like to hear the costumers side of the story for sure. |
What’s curious to me is the location of the shooting. About two hours from Toronto. Wonder why Toronto police were there and not a local police force?
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This old gentleman was well regarded, a stroke survivor and was a good retailer. |
There is a bunch of questions they don't seem to want to answer. Why are they not releasing the name; next of kin obviously notified? Why was Toronto PD operating way outside their jurisdiction? Often they will hold a press conference to announce what they were looking for, even if police shooting was involved.
The lack of basic information is what is leading to speculation and theories. And makes the doubts that the truth will ever come out more plausible. |
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