{"id":796128,"date":"2026-07-12T01:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T01:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/796128\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T01:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T01:28:10","slug":"salsa-on-st-clair-festival-shooting-live-updates-2-dead-3-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/796128\/","title":{"rendered":"Salsa on St. Clair festival shooting live updates: 2 dead, 3 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police say they are responding to an active shooter at the Salsa on St. Clair street festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Two people have died while three others have been injured in the shooting on St. Clair Avenue West near Arlington Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CP24 and CTV News have live coverage of the shooting. Follow for live updates.<\/p>\n<p>9:17 p.m. &#8211; Scene secured, police say<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a post on social media, Toronto police say they have secured the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No additional victims have been reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">&#8220;A large police presence remains in the area as officers continue their investigation,&#8221; police said in the post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">&#8220;Please continue to avoid the area and follow directions from emergency personnel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said they got a call at 8:12 p.m. for a shooting on St. Clair Avenue West near Arlington Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers arrived and found five people suffering from gunshot wounds. Police said two were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7CEDTJLKY5AV3EA33RBZCLIYQY.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Salsa on St. Clair shooting Police are on the scene of a shooting at the Salsa on St. Clair festival. (Joanna Lavoie) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">There is no immediate word on the condition of the other three victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cPlease avoid the area immediately,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No descriptions of the shooter have been released.<\/p>\n<p>CP24 reporter describes scene<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Joanna Lavoie, a CP24.com journalist, is at the festival. She said people were having fun and enjoying the festival before the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe were dancing,\u201d Lavoie said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She recounted that the energy just changed when the shooting occurred. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cPeople are terrified,\u201d she said, adding police are telling people to go home.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/BROKZSYU2FAPTNR4RX257W6PHA.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Salsa on St. Clair Police are on the scene at Salsa on St. Clair. (Joanna Lavoie) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lavoie said the festival is essentially shut down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m a little bit shaken,\u201d she said, noting that she came down to the festival to have a fun time with her friends.<\/p>\n<p>What is Salsa on St. Clair festival<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The annual TD Salsa on St. Clair happens along St. Clair Avenue West between Christie Street and Winona Drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It is touted as Canada\u2019s no. 1 \u201cLatino-themed cultural celebration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/salsaintoronto.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/salsaintoronto.com\/about\/\">According to the event<\/a>, it attracts hundreds of thousands of people during the two-day festivities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police say they are responding to an active shooter at the Salsa on St. Clair street festival.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-796128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796128","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=796128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}