Updated: Man shot by Hamilton police on residential street in Mount Hope

Ontario's police watchdog is investigating after a man was shot by a Hamilton police officer on a residential street in Mount Hope.

The Special Investigations Unit confirmed the man had been shot on Strathearne Place on Wednesday evening. Few details have been released, including the man's condition and why police were in the area before the shooting.

Hamilton police only said it was an officer-involved shooting" and confirmed the SIU was investigating.

Police directed further inquiries to the SIU, an arm's length agency that investigates incidents involving police in Ontario where someone is hurt or killed by police.

At 9 p.m. Wednesday, there were half a dozen cruisers lining Strathearne Place, a street that branches west off Homestead Drive and ends in a cul-de-sac. Police tape blocked access to the last 125 metres of the street, which is the section populated with larger, two-storey homes.

Graham Logan, who has lived on the street for 10 years, said he was asleep around 5:30 p.m. when his mother woke him up. They heard two or three gunshots outside.

Nothing ever happens here," Logan said. We barely get any police (activity), if ever."

Three police cruisers were within an area cordoned off by police tape - one of them had an open trunk. A Chevrolet Cavalier was parked haphazardly across the front of a driveway nearby.

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