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The SIU is investigating after a man died following a police-involved shooting on a streetcar near Trinity Bellwoods Park early Saturday morning.

Police investigated a man on a streetcar on Dundas St. W. near Grace St., west of Bathurst St., just after midnight, the SIU said in a news release.

There was some sort of an interaction between police and the man and he was shot. The man was then taken to St. Michael’s hospital trauma centre with life-threatening injuries after suffering multiple gunshot wounds in his upper torso and no vital signs, Toronto Emergency Medical Services said.

Rosemary Pimentel, who lives on Bellwoods Ave. a few houses down from Dundas St. W, witnessed the shooting. She said that she heard what sounded like a taser being used after the shots had been fired.

He died at the hospital after suffering a gunshot wound, the SIU said.

The SIU is a civilian agency that looks into incidents involving the police and civilians that have resulted in serious injury, death or allegations of sexual assault.

It has assigned eight investigators, including two forensic investigators, to probe the circumstances of the shooting.

A TTC spokesman confirmed there was no one else on board the streetcar at the time of the incident.

Owen Melville, 25, was in Trinity Bellwoods throwing a football around with his friends when he heard the shots.

"We heard these popping noises and we were like 'Whoah those were gunshots,'" said Melville.

Janna Kale, 29, came home and saw the police tape and cars lining the corner of her familiar street.

"I love this neighbourhood," she said. "This scares the crap out of me. It really does."

Kale lives on Gore Vale Ave. just steps from where the shooting occurred.

Police cars lined the streets and a lone streetcar sat in the centre of the police tape. Several restaurant workers finishing their shifts on the busy strip declined to comment.

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Dundas St. W. between Montrose Ave. and Claremont St., which had been closed for the investigation, has reopened and all streetcars and buses in the area will be operating normally.

With files from Arshy Mann and Robin Levison