{"id":729715,"date":"2026-06-11T12:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/729715\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T12:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:21:13","slug":"officer-in-hospital-after-being-shot-during-exchange-of-gunfire-toronto-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/729715\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer in hospital after being shot during \u2018exchange of gunfire\u2019: Toronto police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/toronto-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto police<\/a> officer is in hospital with serious, life-threatening injuries after being shot during an \u201cexchange of gunfire\u201d early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The force said in a post on X that at 5:42 a.m., police were conducting a search warrant near Trethewey and Black Creek drives when gunshots rang out.<\/p>\n<p>An officer was shot, and they were taken to hospital in an emergency run.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Toronto paramedics told Global News two people were taken to hospital in serious, life-threatening condition.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tToronto police attend the scene of a shooting near Trethewey and Black Creek drives on June 11, 2026. An officer was taken to hospital with serious, life-threatening injuries after being shot during an exchange of gunfire early Thursday morning, police say.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tVictoria Femia\/Global News\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear who the second individual is. No suspect information was made available.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Special Investigations Unit, Ontario\u2019s police watchdog, is investigating, a spokesperson told Global News.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you&#8217;ll never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact police.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OFFICER SHOT:<br \/>Tretheway Dr &amp; Black Creek Dr <br \/>5:42am<br \/>\u2013 officers conducting a search warrant in the area<br \/>\u2013 there was an exchange of gunfire<br \/>\u2013 officer was shot <br \/>\u2013 officer transported to hospital via emergecy run<br \/>\u2013 more info to come<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/GO1207010?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#GO1207010<\/a><br \/>^se<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TPSOperations\/status\/2065024493890711677?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Toronto police officer is in hospital with serious, life-threatening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,2169,3302,80129,79076,80130],"class_list":["post-729715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-crime","tag-toronto-police","tag-toronto-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729715","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=729715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}