{"id":799841,"date":"2026-07-13T20:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/799841\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T20:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:43:12","slug":"police-id-2-men-killed-in-targeted-shooting-at-toronto-street-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/799841\/","title":{"rendered":"Police ID 2 men killed in targeted shooting at Toronto street festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Toronto police have identified two men killed in what they say was a targeted shooting at the Salsa on St. Clair festival on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Shaquan Quashie, 25, and Cesar Vernaza, 20, were killed when gunfire erupted in the area of St. Clair Avenue and Arlington Avenue, Toronto police service said in a news release on Monday. Their deaths mark the city’s 19th and 20th homicides of the year.<\/p>\n

Toronto police Chief Myron Demkiw said at a news conference Monday that the two men killed knew one another.<\/p>\n

One of the men was pronounced dead at the scene, while the other died in hospital. Five other people struck by gunfire were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n

Officers responded to calls about the shooting at 8:12 p.m.<\/p>\n

Police recovered two firearms at the scene, Demkiw said. He said police do not have information on suspects at this time.<\/p>\n

Police are seeking relevant video footage and images from anyone in the area at the time of the shooting.\u00a0That material can be uploaded using the QR code here<\/a> or at this link.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-799841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799841","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=799841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}