The police shot and killed a man at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Thursday morning after he brandished a firearm, setting off a partial shutdown of the airport’s largest terminal, the authorities said.
Officers from Peel Regional Police, the agency in charge of policing the airport, were called to investigate a 30-year-old man described as being in distress who was parked in an S.U.V. outside the Terminal 1 departures area, the authorities said.
The man displayed a firearm before being shot, according to Kristy Denette, a spokeswoman for the Special Investigations Unit, an oversight body in Ontario that investigates episodes in which police action results in death or injury.
He died in a hospital, Ms. Denette said in a statement. No officers were injured.
The airport authority has warned travelers to expect delays in Terminal 1 and has rerouted people to enter and exit through the arrivals area.
In February, the airport was the scene of a major incident when a Delta Air Lines passenger jet flipped after landing. Though several of the 76 passengers and four crew members on board were injured, all were able to evacuate the plane.
