One dead, one seriously injured after shooting incident in Cornwall

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One person is dead, and another was transported to hospital after a weapons incident in east-end Cornwall on Wednesday afternoon.

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Cornwall police responded to the call just after 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, which led to the lockdown of a section of east-end Cornwall.

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By 2:30 p.m. police had secured the scene, and located a person suffering from life-threatening gunshot wounds who was taken to hosptital.

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Several hours later, police said officers had located a deceased person who died from what police believe was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was identified Thursday as a 48-year-old man from Cornwall.

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The investigation is being handled by Cornwall police’s criminal investigations division.

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Photos shared on social media showed officers had deployed to 1150 Montreal Rd., a building that currently holds several businesses on its ground floor and a residential unit on its second floor. The Standard-Freeholder is among the prior tenants that had its office in the building from 2010-20, which was the administration office for Courtaulds Canada until the plant closed in the mid-1990s.

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École secondaire publique l’Héritage and St. Lawrence College are both west of that area on Montreal Road, and other schools are located along Second Street West north of the area. The two schools were placed in a lockdown; students were safely escorted from l’Héritage around the usual dismissal time.

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