Funeral underway for OPP officer fatally struck by car in Hearst, Ont., last week
Written by The Canadian Press on June 18, 2026
Fellow officers, dignitaries and family members are paying their respects this morning to an Ontario Provincial Police constable killed on the job.
A photo of Const. Tarun Bali as a young boy, beaming and saluting, was placed at the front of the packed Mississauga funeral venue as bagpipes rang out and uniformed OPP pallbearers carried his coffin down the aisle.
Bali was fatally struck by a vehicle last week in the northern Ontario town of Hearst, as police tried to stop a man who had escaped from a hospital.
An 18-year-old has been charged with first-degree murder in the case.
The 29-year-old officer’s funeral service is not open to the general public, but the OPP allowed people to observe the funeral cortege as it travelled west on Highway 407 from Thornhill to the Mississauga Sports and Entertainment Centre.
The service is being livestreamed on the OPP’s YouTube page.
Bali is one of two officers killed on the job in the province this month. Const. Marc Pinizzotto, a Toronto police veteran, was shot dead last week during a raid linked to investigations into multiple shootings, including one at the U.S. Consulate in March.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 18, 2026.
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