3 found dead, watchdog deployed following ‘barricaded person incident’ in Huntsville, Ont.

Three radical are dormant and Ontario’s constabulary watchdog has been deployed pursuing what Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) called a “barricaded idiosyncratic incident” successful the Town of Huntsville.

In a media release, the OPP said officers were called to reports of a shooting and a idiosyncratic barricaded successful a location connected Highview Drive astir 9 p.m. connected Friday.

Police closed roads successful the country for safety, and said that yet “three individuals, including the equipped individual, were located deceased.”

“As a effect of the officers’ enactment with the barricaded person, the OPP has notified the province’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) which has invoked its mandate,” constabulary said.

In its ain media release, the SIU said it was probing the circumstances astir the decease of a 52-year-old man.

The SIU said the antheral had called constabulary Friday nighttime and told them helium had weapons and had harmed 2 household members wrong the home.

It said constabulary deployed an Emergency Response Team and situation negotiators, and were capable to speech to the antheral by phone.

“Shortly aft connection stopped, a drone was sent into the location to behaviour a hunt of the residence,” the SIU said.

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“The bodies of 2 deceased women were located, arsenic was the assemblage of a deceased man.”

A post-mortem is scheduled for Monday.

Anyone with information, including photos oregon videos, that could assistance the SIU probe is asked to interaction the pb researcher astatine 1-800-787-8529 through its website.

Anyone with accusation that could assistance the parallel constabulary probe is asked to telephone Huntsville OPP astatine 1-888-310-1122, oregon anonymously done Crime Stoppers.