{"id":797430,"date":"2026-07-12T17:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797430\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T17:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:04:10","slug":"brampton-man-facing-10-charges-in-shooting-at-polson-pier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797430\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton man facing 10 charges in shooting at Polson Pier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Brampton man is facing 10 charges after an early morning shooting at Polson Pier.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto police say there was an exchange of gunfire between two people just before 3:30 a.m. in the area of Polson Street and Cherry Street.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter discharging his firearm, the accused stole a vehicle from a rideshare driver that had customers on board,\u201d police said in an updated release. \u201cWhile fleeing the scene, the accused struck pedestrians and vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say two people were taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds, including the man who stole the rideshare vehicle. A third person who was struck by the vehicle was also taken to the hospital. All of the injuries are considered non-life threatening.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a firearm was recovered in the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Omar Abdul Singateh, 25, of Brampton, has been charged with four counts of forcible confinement, discharging a firearm recklessly, unauthorized possession of a firearm, possessing a firearm while prohibited, robbery, dangerous operation causing bodily harm and dangerous operation.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not have any description of the second suspect involved in the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Toronto as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=toronto.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brampton man is facing 10 charges after an early morning shooting at Polson Pier. Toronto police say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-797430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797430","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=797430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}