{"id":204654,"date":"2025-10-11T07:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T07:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/204654\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T07:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T07:33:10","slug":"downtown-toronto-shooting-suspect-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/204654\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Toronto shooting: suspect charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 32-year-old man has been charged after one person was critically injured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2025\/10\/01\/man-in-his-30s-critically-injured-in-downtown-toronto-shooting\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2025\/10\/01\/man-in-his-30s-critically-injured-in-downtown-toronto-shooting\/\">in a shooting in downtown Toronto last week.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police said they initially responded to a shooting call in the area of <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/1wVxwdYGzEFWA8jD9\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/1wVxwdYGzEFWA8jD9\">Wellesley Street East and Sherbourne Street<\/a> shortly after 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A man approached a group and, without provocation, tried to initiate a fight, police said. Shortly after, he allegedly brandished a gun and discharged it towards the group.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/XMKRNVWEVBFFXBKVG67JY73K3U.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Toronto shooting Police are on the scene of a shooting in the area of Wellesley and Bleecker on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. (Jacob Estrin\/CTV News) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said a man in his 30s was struck by a bullet, resulting in life-threatening injuries. He was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspect fled before police arrived. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More than a half hour later, police said a call came in for a firearm discharge in the area of <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/XbgjSzXxotD5TwKa6\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/XbgjSzXxotD5TwKa6\">Yonge Street and Gerrard Street East<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The same suspect approached another group and brandished a firearm, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He allegedly discharged the firearm towards the group unprovoked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No one was struck by gunfire and the suspect shortly after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a news release on Friday, police announced that members of the Gun &amp; Gang Task Force arrested the suspect near <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/jEeQHnKPg3oid9XW6\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/jEeQHnKPg3oid9XW6\">Howard and Sherbourne Streets<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has been identified as Abel Adamu of Toronto. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is facing six counts of possession of a firearm contrary to a prohibition order, two counts of discharging a firearm with intent, two counts of possession of a loaded prohibited or restricted firearm and one count of aggravated assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 32-year-old man has been charged after one person was critically injured in a shooting in downtown Toronto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-204654","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\/204654","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=204654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}