{"id":581843,"date":"2026-04-04T14:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/581843\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T14:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:21:08","slug":"2-dead-following-shooting-in-brampton-school-yard-peel-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/581843\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead following shooting in Brampton school yard, Peel police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two people are dead after a shooting in a Brampton elementary school yard late Friday, according to Peel police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Around 10:30 p.m., a shooting happened on the St. Joachim Elementary School grounds near Rutherford Road and Weybridge Trail, Peel police said in a news conference Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two victims, a man in his 20s and a male youth were shot and died on scene, said Cst. Laurie McCann, spokesperson for Peel Regional Police (PRP.) She said the shots could have been fired by multiple people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThere was some sort of altercation that occurred in the school grounds with several individuals,\u201d she told reporters Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say they\u2019re still searching for suspects, who fled the scene before police arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe are unsure at this time if they fled on foot or got into a vehicle,\u201d McCann said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">McCann said PRP\u2019s homicide unit is investigating the incident and officers will have a large presence in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers are looking into the relationship between the suspects and victims, but believe the shooting was targeted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police are asking anyone with information, footage or who may have witnessed the shooting to contact them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people are dead after a shooting in a Brampton elementary school yard late Friday, according to Peel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48,222685,75073,35243],"class_list":{"0":"post-581843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brampton","8":"tag-brampton","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-laurie-mccann","12":"tag-peel-police","13":"tag-peel-regional-police"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581843","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=581843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}