{"id":798286,"date":"2026-07-13T03:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T03:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798286\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T03:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T03:28:13","slug":"toronto-festival-ends-in-tragedy-after-gunfire-erupts-police-search-for-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798286\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto festival ends in tragedy after gunfire erupts, police search for suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>What began as one of Toronto\u2019s biggest celebrations of Latin culture ended in tragedy Saturday night after gunfire erupted during the Salsa on St. Clair festival. Two men were killed, four others were injured and another taken to hospital. Sunday, organizers cancelled the festival\u2019s second and final day as police continue to search for suspects.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chch.com\/chch-news\/ford-and-unifor-strike-tentative-deal-for-three-year-labour-contract\/\" class=\"nav-item-prev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/74156d038c91d74de2ab19ba84dfbcb51b8038a6a1e0da8d07b80479318c0986.jpg-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"   itemprop=\"image\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\/1;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPrevious CHCH News\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFord and Unifor strike tentative deal for three-year labour contract\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; What began as one of Toronto\u2019s biggest celebrations of Latin culture ended in tragedy Saturday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-798286","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\/798286","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=798286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}