Chief Thai Truong, though, will need to take a lot longer to elaborate on why it took over six years to pursue charges and what caused the initial investigation to be closed in 2019 before being reopened in 2022

It shouldn’t take this long to finish. He went on. It shouldn’t have taken us years and years to get to the conclusion we have today.

However, I promise that I am positive that this won’t occur again. Regarding the reason for the delay and the impact it had on his department, Truong stated time and time again that he was unable to discuss the specifics because they might jeopardize the case’s prosecution, which might involve calling witnesses who were part of the first and second investigations.

The 45-minute press conference was the first that police in the fifth-largest city in Ontario, which is located roughly midway between Toronto and Detroit, have addressed since charging the athletes who are said to have assaulted the lady in a downtown hotel room.

Carter Hart of the Philadelphia Flyers, Michael McLeod and Cal Foote of the New Jersey Devils, Dillon Dube of the Calgary Flames, and former NHL player Alex Formenton are the players charged with one count each of sexual assault.