The Toronto police officer who shot a man carrying a knife in a park in 2023 has pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm and careless use of a firearm.

Const. Andrew Davis entered the plea at an Ontario court in Toronto Wednesday morning.

Davis was facing different charges than the ones he pleaded guilty to for his role in the shooting of Devon Fowlin in February 2023. Months after that shooting, Davis was charged with aggravated assault and discharging a firearm with intent to maim, wound, disfigure or endanger life.

On Feb. 27 of that year, officers were called to a park in the area of Black Creek Drive and Trethewey Drive for a report of a man with a knife, according to an investigation from the Special Investigations Unit . Two officers discharged Tasers at the man, while

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