{"id":126302,"date":"2026-07-12T02:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/126302\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T02:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:36:13","slug":"shooting-near-toronto-street-festival-kills-2-people-and-wounds-4-police-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/126302\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting near Toronto street festival kills 2 people and wounds 4, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TORONTO (AP) \u2014 TORONTO (AP) \u2014 A shooting near a Toronto street festival killed two people and wounded four others on Saturday, prompting police to warn of an active shooter before later saying the scene was secure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Toronto police said six people were found with gunshot wounds after the shooting near St. Clair Avenue West and Arlington Avenue, where the Salsa on St. Clair festival was underway.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Paramedics respond to an active shooter at the Salsa on St. Clair event in Toronto, Saturday,...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/BRWOWBQJQVAJVPIKQNB4MNJYDI.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"653\" \/>Paramedics respond to an active shooter at the Salsa on St. Clair event in Toronto, Saturday, July 11, 2026. (Keito Newman\/The Canadian Press via AP)(Keito Newman | Keito Newman\/The Canadian Press )<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers initially urged the public to avoid the area while they responded. Police later said the scene had been secured but cautioned that a suspect or suspects had not been apprehended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A large police presence remained in the area near Salsa in Toronto, a Latino-themed cultural celebration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI am devastated by the senseless violence at the Salsa on St. Clair Festival that has claimed two lives and injured others,\u201d Ontario Premier Doug Ford said in a social media post. \u201cMy thoughts are with the victims, their families and everyone affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Toronto, Canada\u2019s largest city, is among North America\u2019s safest major cities. Fatal shootings, particularly those involving multiple victims in public, are relatively rare.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 TORONTO (AP) \u2014 A shooting near a Toronto street festival killed two people and wounded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5202,10443,42225,48,25227],"class_list":["post-126302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-mass-shooting","tag-mass-shooting-canada","tag-salsa-in-toronto","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}