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The Special Investigations Unit, which investigates all police-involved shootings, has never publicly identified either man.

Around supper hour, Charron and his mother had been at the grocery store, with separate carts, going about their shopping. Moments after they entered the store, another man entered and nearly instantly Charron began following him, according to store security footage obtained by the SIU.

Charron followed the man through the grocery store, at some point putting his right hand into his jacket pocket and keeping it there, clutching a seven-centimetre knife that he would later only drop in the alleyway.

As the man was looking at groceries, Charron grabbed him by the neck. The man escaped and ran through the store, with Charron chasing him. Eventually, his mother saw the commotion and also started following the men.

Charron finally caught up to the man and stabbed him in his left side. The man fought back, throwing Charron onto the floor, but Charron continued to pursue him. Charron eventually ran out of the store with his mother chasing after him.

Police would receive multiple 911 calls about the frenzy. They responded, believing the man had been stabbed and that Charron’s mother had been slashed. It was later determined that she was not injured in that way.

Witnesses would report to police the direction Charron fled and the home under construction that he appeared to be in or near.



Bell, arriving at the house, started walking through a narrow alley that separated that house from the building beside it. “The walkway was poorly lit and the ground was covered in ice and debris from the construction.”