{"id":619434,"date":"2026-04-21T19:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619434\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:17:09","slug":"fairview-mall-employee-shot-after-confronting-alleged-jewelry-store-robber-toronto-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619434\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairview Mall employee shot after confronting alleged jewelry store robber: Toronto police"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Fairview Mall security employee was rushed to hospital Tuesday after being shot while confronting a man who had just robbed a jewelry store, Toronto police say.<\/p>\n

Officers were first called to the mall in the area of Sheppard Avenue E. and Don Mills Road around 10:05 a.m., Insp. Kristy Smith told reporters Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

“Based on the information that we have so far, it appears the suspect attended the mall just before opening with the intent on robbing a jewelry store,” she said.<\/p>\n

“As the suspect was fleeing he was confronted by a member of the mall’s security team. During that interaction, the security guard was shot.”<\/p>\n

The victim, who was shot in his midsection, was rushed to hospital and now is in stable condition, Smith said. No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n

The suspect made off with a “quantity of jewelry,” Smith said, but she could not say exactly how much or how much it was worth.<\/p>\n

The suspect is described as a white male who was wearing a grey hoodie, grey pants, a blue baseball cap and a white medical mask.<\/p>\n

Police believe he was working alone. He was last seen in a white van going southbound on Don Mills Road.<\/p>\n

\"AToronto police Insp. Kristy Smith takes questions from reporters after a shooting at CF Fairview Mall on Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (Robert Krbavac\/CBC)<\/p>\n

Smith said shoppers can expect an increased police presence in the area in the coming days.<\/p>\n

“Our thoughts are with the victim, who is a member of the mall’s security team and works closely with our officers on a regular basis,” she said.<\/p>\n

Romal Patel, who works in the mall, said he saw the victim fall down after he heard a gunshot near Michael Hills Jewellers.<\/p>\n

“I saw the victim fall down and he was screaming, ‘I got shot,’ and there was some blood coming out,” Patel said in an interview.<\/p>\n

Social media video shot at the scene, verified by CBC News, shows people rushing to help a bleeding man lying on the mall’s floor, while a person can be heard screaming in the background.<\/p>\n

Cadillac Fairview, which runs the mall, directed questions about the incident to Toronto police.<\/p>\n

“Our immediate priority remains the safety and security of our community of employees, tenants, and visitors, especially those impacted by this morning\u2019s incident,” mall officials said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Police are asking anyone with information or video footage of the incident to contact investigators or Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":{"0":"post-619434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-toronto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619434","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=619434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}