Consulate in Toronto early Monday morning, marking the second such incident this year Consulate in Toronto early Monday morning, police said, the second time this year someone shot at the building. Shots were fired early on Monday at the US consulate in Toronto, Canadian police said, the second shooting near the diplomatic compound in four months.
An officer guarding the consulate “heard the sound of a gunshot in the vicinity here where he was stationed” at about 4.45am, the city’s deputy police chief Frank Barredo told reporters, adding that the consulate’s facade was struck by a bullet. Toronto police said a white car with no licence plates was seen fleeing the... At least one shot was fired outside the U.S.
Consulate in downtown Toronto early on Monday but there were no injuries, police said, in what was the second such incident in the last four months. Police officers, alerted by the sound of a gunshot, said they found evidence of a weapon having been fired outside the building on University Avenue. Police said that a white sedan was seen fleeing the scene and added that no injuries were reported.
On March 10, several shots, were fired at the same building, following three separate incidents in which gunshots were fired at synagogues in the Toronto area. Police increased security outside the U.S. and Israeli consulates in Toronto, Canada’s largest city, in response.
In June police said, without providing any more details, that young people in the Toronto area were being paid to shoot at various targets, including synagogues, Jewish schools and the U.S. Police arrested three people in connection with the March shooting, and one police officer was killed during the operation. Toronto Deputy Police Chief Frank Barredo said an officer assigned to the U.S.
Consulate security detail heard a gunshot at about 4:46 a.m., and police later recovered a shell casing and found damage to the front of the building. Police also briefly pursued a vehicle seen leaving the area but discontinued the chase because of its high speed, he said. Barredo declined to comment on a possible motive, and on whether the shooting was linked to previous incidents at the U.S.
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