A 16-year-old boy who was shot by Toronto police during a traffic stop in North York on Sunday night has died, the province’s Special Investigations Unit confirms.

The SIU said the teen, who was shot during an “exchange of gunfire” during a traffic stop near Sheppard Avenue West and Bathurst Street late Sunday night, died in hospital on Tuesday morning.

According to the SIU, Toronto police stopped an Infiniti in the area for a Highway Traffic Act infraction. The SIU later confirmed that the vehicle was missing its front licence plates.

The police watchdog confirmed to CTV News Toronto that a firearm was recovered from the vehicle.

“There was an exchange of gunfire during which two police officers discharged their firearms. The male was struck and was taken to hospital where he passed away this morning,” the civilian agency said in an updated news release on Tuesday.

The SIU also told CTV that a review of bodyworn camera footage showed the male youth “shot at police officers before they discharged their firearm at him” and said he was not the driver of the vehicle.

Images from the scene showed several bullet holes in the windshield of a vehicle.

Security footage obtained by CTV News appears to show an officer talking with the driver behind the wheel while a second officer is seen on the opposite side of the car, standing beside two people.

The officer on the driver’s side suddenly backs away and begins firing their weapon toward the front windshield of the car before the second officer begins firing from the rear.

The responding officers were not injured, Toronto police and the SIU confirmed.

“There was a total of six occupants in the vehicle that was stopped,” SIU spokesperson Kristy Denette told reporters on Monday.

Denette could not confirm whether all six people were still in the car when the officers started firing their weapons.

Toronto police told CP24 on Tuesday that the five other occupants of the vehicle - who range in age from 16 to 20 and are either from Toronto or Brampton - were all arrested and face various charges including possession of a loaded firearm and occupying a vehicle with a firearm.

One of the youths was also charged with failing to comply with a release order.

None of the charges have been tested in court.

The SIU has assigned five investigators and two forensic investigators to the case. Two subject officials and two witness officials have also been designated.

Officials are in the process of scheduling a post-mortem examination, the SIU said.

In a statement to CP24, the Toronto Police Association (TPA) says, “The TPA continues to support our members who were involved in this tragic incident. There is little we can say given the ongoing SIU investigation. However, we can say that every use of force incident is an interaction between human beings, and they deeply impact our members. No police officer goes to work wanting to use force, let alone fire their weapon.”