At least two people have been killed in gunfire at a street festival in Toronto. <\/p>\n
Police in the Canadian city initially received reports of an active shooter on St Clair Avenue at approximately 20:12 local time (01:12 BST), where a salsa festival was being held.<\/p>\n
Six victims with gunshot wounds were found by police, who said two people had been pronounced dead at the scene. <\/p>\n
At a press conference hours after the shooting, police said there had been an exchange of gunfire at the festival between two individuals, and two firearms had been recovered from the scene.<\/p>\n
Police were yet to arrest anyone in connection with the shooting, and investigations were ongoing.<\/p>\n
Toronto Deputy Police Chief Francisco Barredo described the scene as “very chaotic”, and said there was an estimated 13,000 people at the festival when the shooting happened. <\/p>\n
He said police were managing three separate crime scenes in connection with the shooting, and the public would be updated once more information was available.<\/p>\n
People were told to stay away from the area, where a large police presence remained. Anyone with information in connection with the shooting, including witness statements, have been urged to call police.<\/p>\n
Doug Ford, the Premier of Ontario, condemned the “senseless violence” at the salsa festival, which he confirmed had “claimed two lives and injured others”.<\/p>\n
“The person responsible must be caught, brought to justice and spend the rest of their life behind bars,” he wrote in a statement on X.<\/p>\n
He thanked first responders who attended the scene, adding his thoughts were with “the victims, their families and everyone affected”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least two people have been killed in gunfire at a street festival in Toronto. Police in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-687037","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}