HUMBER ET CETERA
Humber’s Student Newspaper
October 14, 2022
Vol.64, No.4
JORDAN GRIFFITH
Police and SIU investigators on the scene after two South Simcoe constables were shot and killed while responding to a domestic disturbance call in Innisfil, Ont., on Oct. 11, 2022.
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INNISFIL, Ont. — The bodies of two South Simcoe constables killed by a gunman during a domestic disturbance call were returned to Barrie. Now begins the planning for the police funerals for Morgan Russell, 54, and Devon Northrup, 33. “There will be a full police funeral for our officers together.
Details are still being finalized,” a statement by South Simcoe police said. The officers never pulled out their service pistols while at the Oct. 11 call on Somers Boulevard, in the 25th Side Road and 9th Line area, when they were shot. A third officer on the scene apparently returned fire. The suspect, Christopher Joseph Doncaster, 22, was pronounced dead at the scene after an exchange
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of gunfire with officers inside the home. An autopsy is expected to be completed today, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said. South Simcoe Acting Police Chief John Van Dyke choked back tears during a media conference Oct. 12 as he identified Russell and Northrup as the officers who died in the line of duty. “Words cannot describe our grief,” he said. “The South Simcoe Police Service is devastated to
announce the death of two of our officers.” Russell and Northrup responded to a domestic disturbance involving a man with some military training who lived on the residential street just before 8 p.m. Police said Northrup died at the scene and Russell was airlifted to St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, where he later died. Russell was a 33-year veteran of the force, a crisis negotiator and
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was assigned to uniform patrol. Northrup was a six-year member of the force and part of the mental health crisis outreach and support team, as well as the Emergency Response Unit. SIU spokesperson Kristy Denette confirmed that both officers did not have their weapons drawn at the time they were fatally shot. CONTINUED ON P.2