{"id":652215,"date":"2026-05-06T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/652215\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T20:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:00:08","slug":"man-charged-in-synagogue-shootings-in-toronto-and-vaughan-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/652215\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged in synagogue shootings in Toronto and Vaughan, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>A 18-year-old man is facing several charges in connection with shootings at synagogues in Toronto and Vaughan in early March, police say.<\/p>\n<p>On March 6, just before midnight, gunshots were heard in the area of Clark Avenue W. and York Hill Boulevard. <\/p>\n<p>When York Region police arrived, they found the front doors of the Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto synagogue damaged by gunfire. Two people inside were not injured.<\/p>\n<p>A day later, just after midnight, gunshots were heard in the area of Bathurst Street and Glencairn Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>When Toronto police arrived, they found the front entrance of Shaarei Shomayim synagogue damaged by gunfire. No one was inside at the time and no one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto police said in a news release Wednesday that because the accused was 17 years old at the time at the shootings, he is not being identified.<\/p>\n<p>Police said he is of no fixed address. <\/p>\n<p>The suspect has been charged with:<\/p>\n<p>Two counts of discharging firearm into a place.Two counts of mischief to property over $5,000.Unauthorized possession of a firearm in a motor vehicle.Unauthorized possession of a firearm.Possessing a prohibited device.Careless storage of a prohibited device.Occupying a motor vehicle with a prohibited device.<\/p>\n<p>He is scheduled to appear in court in Newmarket on May 20.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is being asked to contact police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-652215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652215","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=652215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}