A 28-year-old man is dead three days after being shot by undercover Peel police officers who were conducting a drug investigation in Mississauga, according to the province’s police watchdog.

At around 7:45 p.m. on Tuesday, near Southampton Drive and Eglinton Avenue West in Mississauga, a man who was a suspect in a drug investigation began driving his vehicle toward the officers before several rounds were fired at the car, Peel police Const. Sarah Patten said at the time. The car then rolled into the garage of a townhouse.

Patten said the man was rushed to hospital with gunshot wounds.

The Special Investigations Unit confirmed his death on Friday. Authorities will not be releasing the victim’s name, as requested by his family.

The SIU is a provincial agency that investigates incidents involving police in which a person is killed, seriously injured or there are accusations of sexual assault against an officer.

David Venn is a breaking news reporter, working out of the Star’s radio room in Toronto. Follow him on Twitter: @davidvenn_

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