Toronto police fired a Taser and a man dropped from a third-storey balcony after a dramatic standoff early Monday morning.

Ontario’s Special Investigation’s Unit, a watchdog that looks into serious injury, death or assault involving police officers, is investigating the incident.

Daniel Wright, 42, was put on a stretcher and rushed to Sunnybrook hospital after he fell an estimated 9 metres to land on concrete around 5:30 a.m. He was in stable condition on Monday evening.

Video of the incident shows that the man was crouched when a Taser was fired towards him. Then the man moved to the edge of the balcony and fell.

Earlier that morning, police from 12 Division responded to a 911 call for a domestic incident on the fourth floor at 1765 Weston Rd., a highrise apartment building.

A neighbour who lives on the fourth floor said she woke up to banging around 1 a.m. She heard a man’s angry voice in the hall. She opened her door and saw a police officer on the floor. Shortly after, the building’s fire alarm went off.

When she went out to her balcony, she saw a man on the balcony of a third apartment directly below. She said the man was taunting the police.

“I guarantee you won’t get me,” she said she heard him say.

The man was screaming and yelling obscenities at police, according to residents who had gone downstairs to watch the scene unfold after the fire alarm went off.

The man was straddling the cement ledge and threatening to jump, residents said. Firefighters and EMS were also on the scene.

The Emergency Task Force was called for assistance. A negotiator tried to coax the man away from the ledge for about four hours.

When police fired the Taser, the fourth floor neighbour heard a “zap” and a “commotion,” she said. She returned to her balcony and saw the man on the ground below, surrounded by emergency officials.

Juan Bayas, who is in charge of maintenance at the building, said the man had been living at the building for about two or three months. He might have been living with a female friend during this time. Bayas did not know the suspect very well.

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“He didn’t really talk to anybody,” he said.

This marks the second time in recent years that someone has fallen from a balcony of the identical towers on Weston Rd. when police were on the scene. A teenager fell to his death from the 24th floor of neighbouring 1775 Weston Rd. after police had been called to the apartment in 2007.