{"id":798542,"date":"2026-07-13T06:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798542\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T06:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:32:17","slug":"cn-tower-honours-victims-of-salsa-on-st-clair-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798542\/","title":{"rendered":"CN Tower honours victims of Salsa on St. Clair shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CN Tower is dimming its lights in honour of the victims of the <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2026\/07\/11\/police-warn-of-active-shooter-near-salsa-on-st-clair-festival\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Salsa on St. Clair shooting<\/a> that happened Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the lights will dim at the top of every hour Sunday evening in homage of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>Two men were killed at the festival during an <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2026\/07\/12\/toronto-salsa-on-st-clair-festival-fatal-double-shooting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exchange of gunfire<\/a> that sent at least four others to a hospital with serious gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Police said an estimated 13,000 people were attending the festival when shots rang out shortly after 8 p.m. on Saturday in the area of St. Clair Avenue West and Arlington Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses tell CityNews they heard multiple gunshots followed by screams from crowds of people who were running for cover.<\/p>\n<p>The final day of Salsa on St. Clair was cancelled as police continue to investigate.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Tonight the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/CNTower?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#CNTower<\/a> will dim at the top of every hour in honour of the victims of the shooting at the Salsa on St. Clair event \/ Ce soir, la <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/TourCN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#TourCN<\/a> sera \u00e9teinte au d\u00e9but de chaque heure en hommage aux victimes de la fusillade survenue lors de l&#8217;\u00e9v\u00e9nement \u00ab Salsa on St. Clair \u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6jw7WVQdOe\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/6jw7WVQdOe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CN Tower \/ Tour CN (@TourCNTower) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TourCNTower\/status\/2076342750815899920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 12, 2026<\/a><\/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<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CN Tower is dimming its lights in honour of the victims of the Salsa on St. Clair&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-798542","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\/798542","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=798542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}