Gizem Nisa Demir<\/p>\n
12 July 2026\u2022Update: 12 July 2026<\/p>\n
Two people were killed and five wounded in a shooting near Canada’s largest Latin street festival Saturday, according to police, who urged the public to avoid the area as officers continued their investigation.<\/p>\n
Police wrote on the US social media company X that they received reports of a shooting at 8.12 pm (1212GMT) near Toronto’s Salsa on St. Clair festival.<\/p>\n
Authorities said five people were found with gunshot wounds, and two victims were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
“Police have secured the scene,” Police said in an update. “A large police presence remains in the area as officers continue their investigation.”<\/p>\n
Police urged the public to “continue to avoid the area and follow directions from emergency personnel,” adding that more information would be released.<\/p>\n
Footage obtained by CityNews showed paramedics performing life-saving measures on at least one victim amid a large crowd of festivalgoers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gizem Nisa Demir 12 July 2026\u2022Update: 12 July 2026 Two people were killed and five wounded in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44,232171],"class_list":["post-796287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796287","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=796287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}