{"id":799164,"date":"2026-07-13T13:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/799164\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:41:08","slug":"brampton-man-facing-charges-after-shootout-carjacking-near-downtown-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/799164\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton man facing charges after shootout, carjacking near downtown Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 Several people were injured following a chaotic scene in Toronto that involved gunfire, a carjacking and pedestrians hit by a car.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they responded at around 3:30 a.m. Sunday to a report of gunshots fired east of downtown Toronto, hours after an unrelated shooting at the Salsa on St. Clair festival left two people dead.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a man and a second suspect exchanged gunfire, and then the man stole a rideshare driver\u2019s car with passengers aboard, and struck pedestrians and other vehicles while fleeing the area.<\/p>\n<p>Police say multiple people were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds, including the man.<\/p>\n<p>A pedestrian hit by the fleeing car was also taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>A 25-year-old from Brampton was arrested and is facing multiple charges, including discharging a firearm recklessly and robbery.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 12, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Several people were injured following a chaotic scene in Toronto that involved gunfire, a carjacking and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-799164","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\/799164","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=799164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}