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  • Toronto police officer who shot renowned gunsmith won't talk to SIU (Government Assassination of Gunsmith without prior criminal record?)

    12/06/2021 7:35:09 AM PST · by Mount Athos · 15 replies
    cbc news (Canada) ^ | 12/1/2021 | Bobby Hristova
    The Toronto police officer who shot gunsmith Rodger Kotanko nearly a month ago won't talk to Ontario's police watchdog. Special Investigations Unit (SIU) spokesperson Kristy Denette told CBC Hamilton on Tuesday morning, the subject officer also "declined to release his notes, as is his legal right." Kotanko's family and their lawyer say they're not surprised but are disappointed. "Jessie, his wife, she just cries all the time," Jeff Kotanko, Rodger's brother, said in an afternoon phone call. "She gave up her life in China to come here and spend her life with him and … now he's just gone and...
  • Renowned gunsmith killed in Toronto police raid. Family, experts want to know why

    11/19/2021 3:12:57 AM PST · by blueplum · 19 replies
    CBC canada ^ | 17 November 2021 | Bobby Hristova
    'When you enter the shop of a gunsmith, what the heck do you expect to see?' asks Kotanko family lawyer Hearing about Rodger being near guns wasn't unusual — he was a world-renowned gunsmith, known as one of the best in Canada and someone local police officers trusted to fix their firearms, according to people who knew him.... ...But hearing his brother was hurt had Jeffrey rushing to Rodger's home on Port Ryerse Road. By the time he arrived, Rodger was already dead — shot in his workshop next to his home, according to friends and family, and then taken...