{"id":800517,"date":"2026-07-14T03:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800517\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T03:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:51:25","slug":"toronto-shooting-three-injured-five-arrested-near-waterfront-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800517\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto shooting: Three injured, five arrested near waterfront"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five people have been arrested after three people were shot overnight near Toronto\u2019s waterfront. <\/p>\n

Several people are injured and a Brampton man is facing multiple charges after an early morning shooting near Toronto\u2019s waterfront. <\/p>\n

Toronto police say officers responded to reports of gunfire shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday in the area of Polson Street and Cherry Street.<\/p>\n

Investigators allege there was an exchange of gunfire between the accused and an unknown suspect. After allegedly firing a gun, police say the accused stole a rideshare vehicle that had customers on board before fleeing the area<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile fleeing the scene, the accused struck pedestrians and vehicles,\u201d police said in a news release<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"\"TPS Police investigating after early morning shooting near Polson Street and Cherry Street in Toronto on Sunday July 12, 2026 (CP24 photo). <\/p>\n

As a result of the incident, two people were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds, while another person was hospitalized after being struck by the vehicle. <\/p>\n

Police say the accused also suffered gunshot injuries himself and was also taken to hospital. All of the injuries are considered non-life-threatening.<\/p>\n

As a result, 25-year-old Omar Abdul Singateh of Brampton has been arrested as police say they also recovered a firearm from the stolen vehicle.<\/p>\n

Singateh is charged with reckless discharge of a firearm, unauthorized possession of a firearm, possession of a firearm while prohibited, robbery, four counts of forcible confinement, dangerous operation causing bodily harm and dangerous operation.<\/p>\n

Police previously said that a total of five people were arrested<\/a> but later clarified to CP24 that the other four individuals were actually passengers in the stolen rideshare vehicle. <\/p>\n

There is no description of the other person involved in the exchange of gunfire and the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five people have been arrested after three people were shot overnight near Toronto\u2019s waterfront. Several people are injured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[712,51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-800517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-apple-news","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800517","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=800517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}