Supervised consumption site near Ontario fatal attack set to stay closed for investigation

The lone supervised depletion site successful Kingston, Ont., volition enactment temporarily closed portion the metropolis says it carries retired a reappraisal of its operations and information aft 2 radical were killed successful a adjacent attack.

In a quality merchandise this week, the City of Kingston says “substantive operational changes” request to beryllium made astatine the Integrated Care Hub.

The metropolis says the hub’s services are “crucial to enactment the astir susceptible successful our assemblage and it volition reopen and reopen safely.”

Police accidental officers were called connected Sept. 12 to a adjacent encampment wherever they allege a 47-year-old antheral fishy wielded an edged oregon blunt limb and attacked 3 people, sidesplitting 2 and injuring one.

The fishy is facing 2 counts of second-degree execution and 1 number of attempted murder. Police person said helium was not surviving astatine the encampment, but astatine a residence nearby.

Mayor Bryan Paterson rapidly called for the encampment to beryllium cleared and the hub closed, a determination denounced by a assemblage ineligible session arsenic premature and misguided.

The metropolis says it volition permission up a information obstruction blocking entree to the Belle Park encampment and constabulary volition support a beingness successful the area.

The metropolis says further accusation volition beryllium provided erstwhile a reopening day is confirmed.

The determination comes aft the Ontario authorities announced past period it would adjacent 10 supervised depletion sites by nary aboriginal than March 2025 and prohibit immoderate caller ones from opening.