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<\/p>\nA Montreal man is wanted after allegedly shooting a security guard who confronted him after a jewelry store robbery at a North York mall on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Officers were first called to the mall in the area of Sheppard Avenue E. and Don Mills Road around 10:05 a.m., Insp. Kristy Smith told reporters Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
“Based on the information that we have so far, it appears the suspect attended the mall just before opening with the intent on robbing a jewelry store,” she said.<\/p>\n
“As the suspect was fleeing he was confronted by a member of the mall’s security team. During that interaction, the security guard was shot.”<\/p>\n
The victim, who was shot in his midsection, was rushed to hospital and now is in stable condition, Smith said. No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
Police identified the suspect in a news release later Tuesday, saying he is a 53-year-old Montreal man who has ties to Toronto and Vancouver. He is also wanted in connection with a break-in in Durham Region in August 2023.<\/p>\n
The suspect made off with a “quantity of jewelry,” Smith said, but she could not say exactly how much or how much it was worth.<\/p>\n
The suspect is described as a white male who was wearing a grey hoodie, grey pants, a blue baseball cap and a white medical mask.<\/p>\n
Police believe he was working alone. He was last seen in a white van going southbound on Don Mills Road.<\/p>\n
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(Robert Krbavac\/CBC)<\/p>\n
Smith said shoppers can expect an increased police presence in the area in the coming days.<\/p>\n
“Our thoughts are with the victim, who is a member of the mall’s security team and works closely with our officers on a regular basis,” she said.<\/p>\n
Romal Patel, who works in the mall, said he saw the victim fall down after he heard a gunshot near Michael Hills Jewellers.<\/p>\n
“I saw the victim fall down and he was screaming, ‘I got shot,’ and there was some blood coming out,” Patel said in an interview.<\/p>\n
Social media video shot at the scene, verified by CBC News, shows people rushing to help a bleeding man lying on the mall’s floor, while a person can be heard screaming in the background.<\/p>\n
Cadillac Fairview, which runs the mall, directed questions about the incident to Toronto police.<\/p>\n
“Our immediate priority remains the safety and security of our community of employees, tenants, and visitors, especially those impacted by this morning\u2019s incident,” mall officials said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Police are asking anyone with information or video footage of the incident to contact investigators or Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Montreal man is wanted after allegedly shooting a security guard who confronted him after a jewelry store…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[7469,7468,7465,7467,7466,48,3100],"class_list":["post-13948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-don-mills-road","tag-jewelry-store","tag-kristy-smith","tag-police-presence","tag-security-guard","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13948","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=13948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}