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Vaughan arson Police are searching for the suspect (left) and a light blue 2022 Honda Civic in connection with an arson investigation in Vaughan. (York Regional Police) <\/p>\nYork police are searching for a suspect who set an SUV on fire in a Vaughan driveway before firing several shots at the vehicle. <\/p>\n
Police in York Region have released video showing the moment a suspect set an SUV parked in the driveway of a home in Vaughan on fire on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred at a residence in the area of Forest Heights Boulevard and Highway 27 shortly before 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
Police said a resident notified them about the fire after watching their home security cameras.<\/p>\n
In the video, a man wearing dark clothing takes a jerrycan out of a red bag and douses the SUV with what appears to be an accelerant. Seconds later, the suspect set the vehicle on fire, causing a small explosion.<\/p>\n
The suspect then walks away as the SUV is engulfed in flames. The suspect vehicle, which police identified as a 2022 Honda Civic, is also seen on camera.<\/p>\n
While it was not seen in the video, police said the suspect fired several rounds in the direction of the SUV when he returned to his Civic before driving away.<\/p>\n
The suspect is described as standing five-foot-10 and was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, black jogging pants, black running shoes with white soles and grey gloves.<\/p>\n
Suspect vehicle involved in Peel Region shooting<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Civic is believed to be light blue in colour and had an Ontario licence plate DFEA247.<\/p>\n
Vaughan arson Police are searching for the suspect (left) and a light blue 2022 Honda Civic in connection with an arson investigation in Vaughan. (York Regional Police) <\/p>\n
Police said the same vehicle is believed to be involved in a shooting in Peel Region later that night. They added the Civic was reported stolen in Toronto that day.<\/p>\n
Investigators are asking anyone with information about the incident to call them at 1-866-876-5423 ext. 7441 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"York police are searching for a suspect who set an SUV on fire in a Vaughan driveway before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-155772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}