A police chase that started on the water and continued on land ended with officers fatally shooting a man near a marina in Turkey Point on Tuesday.

Officers with the Norfolk County OPP marine unit tried to stop a boat on Lake Erie around 1 p.m. on Tuesday.

The male boater was operating a Sea-Doo, said Brad Thomson, general manager of MacDonald Turkey Point Marina, a private marina with 750 boat slips about three kilometres south of the beach.

Instead of stopping when ordered by police, the man gunned the engine for the marina, Thomson told The Spectator.

“The Sea-Doo was coming probably 60, 70 miles an hour down our waterway,” Thomson said outside the marina on Wednesday. “He was obviously on a mission.”

The fleeing man wedged the Sea-Doo between two boats near the end of the channe

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