Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Thomas Carrique was “outraged” that one of the suspects in a police officer’s death is a repeat offender who had been released from prison and out on bail, he said at a news conference on Dec. 29.
The death of Constable Grzegorz Pierzchala was “preventable,” Carrique said. “This should never have happened.”
The suspect was already prohibited from having a firearm by two previous court orders, from 2016 and 2018. The gun allegedly involved was a handgun with its serial number removed.
Pierzchala was a rookie police officer on his first solo call when he was shot to death on Dec. 27….