ROCKFORD, Ont. - The Special Investigation Unit is now involved after a man was killed following a shootout with police near Rockford, Ont. on Monday evening.
Grey County OPP were called to a business on Highway 6 and 10 in Georgian Bluffs Township around 8:00 p.m. after a call about a male employee being shot.
Police set up a containment area around the business, Grew Boats Manufacturing, believing the suspect was still inside, when a pickup truck sped away from the property and drove past police.
Officers pursued the truck northwest of Owen Sound into the hamlet of Kemble, where a spike belt forced the suspect to stop the truck on Taylor Side Road.
According to police, around 9:50 p.m. the male driver got out of the truck holding a firearm and shots were fired by both police and the suspect, before he fled the scene on foot.
The man was found dead in a wooded area a short time later, around 10:30 p.m., with the assistance of the OPP Tactics and Rescue Unit and the OPP Canine Unit.
No officers were injured. The 44-year-old man who was shot at the business initially drove himself to Grey Bruce Health Services, but was later airlifted to London Health Sciences Centre where is he is recovering.
With files from The Canadian Press
