Katie Griffin

1 week ago | ctvnews.ca | Katie Griffin

WARNING: This story contains disturbing video, descriptions of violence as it unfolded, the sound of gunshots and profanity. Footage from Ontario Provincial Police Sgt. Eric Mueller’s body-worn camera is a crucial piece of evidence at the trial of the man charged with his murder and the attempted murder of two other officers who were responding to a call for a disturbance and a possible gunshot in the early morning hours of May 11, 2023, in Bourget, Ont.

1 week ago | ctvnews.ca | Katie Griffin

In May 2023, after hearing over his police radio that shots had been fired at a home in Bourget, Ont., now-Sgt. Ionut Mihuta said he drove to the scene as fast as his police cruiser would go. Mihuta said he “had a feeling something was off” even before said that he had his right foot on the gas, going at the maximum speed. “I was going fast,” he testified in court Monday. OPP Sgt. Eric Mueller was shot and killed after arriving at the home in the early morning hours of May 11, 2023. Const.

2 weeks ago | ctvnews.ca | Katie Griffin

A coroner’s inquest into the deadly 2019 bus crash at Westboro Station heard that as of 2021, there had been 11 collisions at the station in the five years prior. Gerry Forbes, an engineer who authored a report for the city in response to a road safety audit, agreed with inquest co-counsel Peter Napier on Wednesday that it was a “significant” number of incidents, given it’s on a dedicated transitway used by professional drivers. “Eleven over five years, that’s more than two per year,” Forbes said.

2 weeks ago | ctvnews.ca | Katie Griffin

This story contains disturbing details that may be upsetting to some readers. A crashworthiness expert with Transport Canada said there was no feasible way to reinforce the shell or structure of the bus that slammed into a canopy overhang at Westboro station in 2019 that could have prevented the catastrophic consequences.

3 weeks ago | ctvnews.ca | Katie Griffin

This story contains disturbing detailsThe neighbour of a man accused of killing an Ontario Provincial Police officer told the jury at Alain Bellefeuille’s murder trial Tuesday that he was in shock at what unfolded at the house next door in the early morning hours on May, 11 2023. André Cousineau said he was awakened in the middle of the night at his home in Bourget to his wife at their bedroom window.