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<\/a><\/p>\nPublished On 27 Jul 202627 Jul 2026<\/p>\n
At least one shot has been fired outside the US Consulate General in Toronto, in the second such incident in just four months.<\/p>\n
Nobody was injured in the attack, police said on Monday, adding that a shell casing was found and the building\u2019s facade had been damaged.<\/p>\n
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A white sedan was seen fleeing the scene at about 5am local time (09:00 GMT), which police said they briefly pursued before giving up the chase over safety concerns due to its ultra-high speed.<\/p>\n
No suspects have been arrested, and the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n
A US Department of State spokesperson said Washington was working closely with Canadian authorities following the incident.<\/p>\n
Toronto police declined to speculate on a possible motive for this weekend\u2019s shooting and whether it was linked to previous incidents.<\/p>\n
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he expected \u201call those responsible to be found, prosecuted and punished to the fullest extent of the law\u201d.<\/p>\n
This is the second time in four months that shots have been fired at the US Consulate in Toronto.<\/p>\n
On March 10, several shots were fired at the same building, and one police officer was later killed in an operation to arrest those responsible.<\/p>\n
Toronto police claimed in June that young people in the Toronto area were being recruited via encrypted messaging apps to shoot at various targets and record the shootings for payment.<\/p>\n
The targets the police mentioned included synagogues, Jewish schools, a waste management company, and the US Consulate.<\/p>\n
The police did not provide evidence, only mentioning that investigations were ongoing in cooperation with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the US FBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have previously suggested a link between anti-Jewish attacks in the city and shootings at the US consulate.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44,1690],"class_list":["post-830239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830239","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=830239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}