{"id":736648,"date":"2026-06-14T18:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/736648\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T18:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:06:18","slug":"procession-to-be-held-for-toronto-police-officer-shot-in-investigation-tied-to-u-s-consulate-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/736648\/","title":{"rendered":"Procession to be held for Toronto police officer shot in investigation tied to U.S. consulate shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A procession will be held for the Toronto police officer who was killed after an exchange of gunfire in the city&#8217;s northwest end Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Const. Marc Pinizzotto died in hospital after he was shot during a search warrant execution tied to several shootings in the GTA, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/sheldon-tracy-stewart-arrest-charges-us-consulate-shooting-9.7234165\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:including one at the U.S. consulate.;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;including one at the U.S. consulate.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">including one at the U.S. consulate. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The procession on Sunday will start at 3 p.m. from the Chief Coroner&#8217;s office in North York to the Kane-Jerrett Funeral Home in Thornhill, said a news release Toronto police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The route will go westbound on Sir William Hearst Avenue, northbound on Morton Shulman Avenue, eastbound on Wilson Avenue and then northbound on Yonge Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police request that only Toronto Police Service members and approved vehicles take place in the procession. Those wishing to pay their respects during the procession are urged to not obstruct traffic or stop on the roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CBC News will be going live with the procession at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Members of the public can also leave condolence messages for Pinizzotto&#8217;s loved ones on the TPS website or in books available for the next two weeks at TPS headquarters, 23 division or 33 division, said police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nicholas Bennett of Toronto, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/toronto-police-officer-search-warrant-shooting-9.7231248\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:19-year-old suspect behind the shooting;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;19-year-old suspect behind the shooting&quot;}\" class=\"link \">19-year-old suspect behind the shooting<\/a>, remains in hospital in critical condition. Police said he will be charged with first-degree murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A procession will be held for the Toronto police officer who was killed after an exchange of gunfire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,263693,190506,238879,264730,3302,79076],"class_list":["post-736648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-marc-pinizzotto","tag-police-officer","tag-search-warrant","tag-the-procession","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736648","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=736648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}