{"id":702168,"date":"2026-05-29T19:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/702168\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T19:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:09:11","slug":"synagogue-shootings-second-teen-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/702168\/","title":{"rendered":"Synagogue shootings: Second teen arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A second teenage suspect has been arrested in connection with a pair of shootings at synagogues in Toronto and Vaughan in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The shootings were separated by only 20 minutes and targeted the Beth Avraham Yosef of Toronto synagogue in Thornhill and a synagogue near Bathurst Street and Glencairn Avenue in Toronto in the late hours of March 6 and the early hours of March 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No injuries were reported as a result of either incident, though police say that evidence of gunfire was located at the entrance of both synagogues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police also noted that there were two people inside the Thornhill synagogue when gunfire erupted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Earlier this month, police announced that they had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/york\/2026\/05\/06\/man-wanted-for-allegedly-firing-shots-at-two-toronto-and-vaughan-synagogues-arrested\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/york\/2026\/05\/06\/man-wanted-for-allegedly-firing-shots-at-two-toronto-and-vaughan-synagogues-arrested\/\">arrested a male<\/a> who was 17 at the time of the shootings and charged him with a total of nine offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His arrest came after police obtained temporary judicial authorization to to release a surveillance camera image of a suspect. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">However, at the time, investigators said that they did not believe the teen acted alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yrp.ca\/news\/update-second-suspect-charged-vaughan-and-toronto-synagogue-shootings\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.yrp.ca\/news\/update-second-suspect-charged-vaughan-and-toronto-synagogue-shootings\">news release<\/a> on Friday, York Regional Police confirmed that a second suspect &#8211; a 17-year-old male, was taken into custody in Waterloo earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The teen, who cannot be named under the terms of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, is facing six charges, including two counts of reckless discharge of a firearm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say that their investigation into the shootings remains ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second teenage suspect has been arrested in connection with a pair of shootings at synagogues in Toronto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-702168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-apple-news","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702168","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=702168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}