TORONTO (AP) \u2014 A shooting near a Toronto street festival killed two people and wounded five on Saturday, prompting police to warn of an active shooter before later saying the scene was secure.<\/p>\n
Toronto Police spokesperson Shannon Eames said there were two deceased and five others 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
Officers 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
Valerie Rodriguez said she was sitting next to a restaurant on Saturday night when she saw people screaming and running. <\/p>\n
\u201cA bunch of people \u2026 told us to lay down onto the floor,\u201d she said. \u201cWe got scared because we didn\u2019t know exactly what was happening.\u201d<\/p>\n
Patsy Gutierrez, a vendor at the festival, said she was serving customers when she saw \u201ca huge wave\u201d of people running.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody started getting frantic and then we stopped serving,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t think it should be something that\u2019s happening in these type of events.\u201d<\/p>\n
A large police presence remained in the area near the festival, an annual celebration of Latin American culture that draws thousands of people to the city\u2019s St. Clair West neighborhood for live music, dancing, food and cultural performances.<\/p>\n
\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
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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 A shooting near a Toronto street festival killed two people and wounded five on Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[28066,17,42231,47,4079,42229,592,11530,5044,4408,42230,6983,48,42232,218],"class_list":["post-126330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ap-top-news","tag-canada","tag-clair-west","tag-crime","tag-doug-ford","tag-fairs-and-festivals","tag-general-news","tag-gun-violence","tag-law-enforcement","tag-north-america","tag-patsy-gutierrez","tag-shootings","tag-toronto","tag-valerie-rodriguez","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126330","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=126330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}