Toronto capturing: 12 injured at Scarborough pub

Three suspects are nonetheless at massive after 12 folks had been injured in a capturing at a pub in Toronto, police within the Canadian metropolis say.

The capturing befell at 22:39 on Friday native time (03:39 GMT Saturday) close to Scarborough metropolis centre in jap Toronto.

Authorities mentioned six folks suffered gunshot wounds and others had been damage by flying or damaged glass. The accidents weren’t life-threatening, they mentioned.

Toronto police mentioned the three males had entered the pub and “opened fireplace indiscriminately”. That they had been armed with an assault rifle and handguns.

A motive “proper now stays unclear and we’re chasing down all leads”, mentioned Police Supt Paul MacIntyre.

“This was a brazen and reckless act of violence that is actually shaken our group and the town itself,” he added.

Police mentioned they had been deploying all out there assets to search out the suspects.

Earlier, they mentioned that one suspect, sporting a black balaclava, had been seen fleeing the scene in a silver automobile.

The victims ranged in age from 20s to mid-50, in keeping with police.

“I am completely satisfied to report, by the grace of God, that there have been no fatalities,” Supt MacIntyre mentioned, which he referred to as “extraordinarily fortunate.”

He mentioned he and different officers had been “horrified” by video of the capturing.

“These guys simply regarded on the crowd and opened fireplace. It was horrible.”

Glass partitions had been shattered and there was “blood all around the flooring”, together with within the basement, the place some folks ran to cover earlier than police arrived, he mentioned.

Mayor Olivia Chow wrote on X that she was “deeply troubled to listen to experiences of a capturing at a pub in Scarborough.”

“That is an early and ongoing investigation – police will present additional particulars. My ideas are with the victims and their households.”

The variety of these injured on this incident is excessive in comparison with different shootings within the space in 2024.

Final 12 months, eight folks had been injured and two killed in shootings and firearm discharges within the police division the place Friday’s incident occurred, the division’s information reveals.

In Toronto, which has a 3 million inhabitants, 43 folks had been killed in shootings final 12 months.

Canada has a decrease fee of firearm homicides than its neighbour the US, with 0.6 per 100,000 folks in comparison with 4.5 per 100,000, in keeping with 2021 information from the Institute for Well being Metrics and Analysis.