{"id":796913,"date":"2026-07-12T10:59:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T10:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/796913\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T10:59:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T10:59:24","slug":"two-killed-three-injured-in-shooting-near-toronto-street-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/796913\/","title":{"rendered":"Two killed, three injured in shooting near Toronto street festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">No information on a suspect or arrests was immediately released. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">A large police presence remains in the area. Salsa in Toronto is a Latino themed cultural celebration.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">The incident comes soon after another shooting in Montreal late last month, where two people, including a police officer, were killed by an assailant who was then shot dead by law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">In February, a school shooting in the small western mining town of Tumbler Ridge killed eight people, including the shooter&#8217;s mother and half brother, and injured 27 before she took her own life. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Two people were killed and three others wounded in a shooting Saturday near a Toronto street festival, prompting police to warn of an active shooter before later saying the scene had been secured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No information on a suspect or arrests was immediately released. A large police presence remains in the area.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-796913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796913","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=796913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}