{"id":702086,"date":"2026-05-29T18:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/702086\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T18:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:19:15","slug":"teen-charged-in-toronto-vaughan-synagogue-shootings-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/702086\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen charged in Toronto, Vaughan synagogue shootings: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 17-year-old is facing several charges in connection to shootings at two synagogues in Toronto and Vaughan that happened in early March, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He is the second person charged in relation to the shootings. Police arrested and charged an 18-year-old man earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/toronto-vaughan-synagogue-shootings-9.7190012\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:this month;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;this month&quot;}\" class=\"link \">this month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The teen, who is from Waterloo, was charged with two counts of reckless discharge of a firearm, two counts of conspiracy to commit an indictable offence, and two counts of weapons trafficking, according to a news release from York Regional Police Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was taken into custody with the help of Waterloo police, the release said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On March 6, just before midnight, gunshots were heard in the area of Clark Avenue W. and York Hill Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When police arrived, they found the front doors of the Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto synagogue damaged by gunfire. Two people who were inside were not injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A day later, just after midnight, gunshots were heard in the area of Bathurst Street and Glencairn Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old is facing several charges in connection to shootings at two synagogues in Toronto and Vaughan that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,11240,3302,255537],"class_list":["post-702086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-shootings","tag-toronto","tag-waterloo-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702086","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=702086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}