{"id":829215,"date":"2026-07-27T13:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/829215\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T13:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:10:17","slug":"shots-fired-near-u-s-consulate-in-toronto-adjacent-lanes-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/829215\/","title":{"rendered":"Shots fired near U.S. consulate in Toronto, adjacent lanes closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto police are investigating after shots were fired near the U.S. Consulate in downtown Toronto early this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Officers heard a firearm discharge in the area of University Avenue and Queen Street West around 4:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrived at the scene and found a single shell casing outside the government building.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported, and it\u2019s unclear whether the building was struck or if the shots were fired nearby.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chch.com\/chch-news\/residential-treatment-and-recovery-site-opens-in-hamilton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Residential treatment and recovery site opens in Hamilton<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police say a white sedan fled the area. No suspect information has been released.<\/p>\n<p>Southbound University Avenue remains closed while investigators examine the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting comes four months after another attack on the U.S. consulate.<\/p>\n<p>Police allege the March 10 shooting was part of a gun-for-hire plot involving young people recruited to target the building.<\/p>\n<p>Sheldon Tracy-Stewart, 18, and Zara Jabbi, 19, were charged in June on multiple counts related to the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police are investigating after shots were fired near the U.S. Consulate in downtown Toronto early this morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-829215","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\/829215","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=829215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}