The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is investigating after a 29-year-old man was shot and wounded by a Toronto police officer early Saturday morning near Jane Street and Hwy. 401.

The SIU said police were initially called around 3:50 a.m. with a report of an alleged road-rage incident where one of the drivers may be armed.

Police located a vehicle of interest in the drive-thru of the Tim Horton’s at Jane Street and Falstaff Avenue. After an alleged altercation with the driver, the officer fired his gun multiple times, leaving the driver with a gunshot wound, the SIU said in its press release.

Toronto paramedics said the driver was taken to hospital in serious but non-life threatening condition.

The SIU is an arms-length provincial agency that investigates incidents involving police in which someone is killed, injured or accused of sexual assault.

TY Tom Yun is a breaking news reporter, working out of the Star's radio room in Toronto. Follow him on Twitter: @thetomyun

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