{"id":797530,"date":"2026-07-12T18:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T18:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797530\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T18:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T18:12:11","slug":"torontos-salsa-on-st-clair-festival-cancelled-as-police-investigate-deadly-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797530\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto&#8217;s Salsa on St. Clair festival cancelled as police investigate deadly shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The remainder of Toronto\u2019s Salsa on St. Clair festival has been cancelled as police continue to investigate a shooting that left two people dead and others injured at the event on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say in an Instagram post the street festival will not resume today and their thoughts are with everyone affected by the \u201csenseless violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One man died at the scene and another in hospital after an exchange of gunfire that also sent four people to hospital with serious gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Police say no arrests have been made as of early this morning as they continue to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>They have said that an estimated 13,000 people were attending the festival when shots rang out shortly after 8 p.m. in the area of St. Clair Avenue West and Arlington Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Salsa on St. Clair is a long-running festival celebrating Latin music, food and culture.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Vancouver 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=vancouver.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\/05\/1778189171_473_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":"The remainder of Toronto\u2019s Salsa on St. Clair festival has been cancelled as police continue to investigate a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-797530","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\/797530","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=797530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}