{"id":145980,"date":"2026-07-27T22:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T22:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/145980\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T22:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T22:57:13","slug":"police-investigate-shooting-at-us-consulate-in-toronto-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/145980\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate shooting at US consulate in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By JIM MORRIS<\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) \u2014 A shooter fired at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto early Monday morning, police said, the second time this year someone shot at the building. No one was injured in the incident, but a single shell casing was found and there was damage to the building\u2019s facade.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto deputy chief Frank Barredo said a high-speed chase ensued that lasted an hour, but that no arrest was made. He vowed that the search for the perpetrator or perpetrators would continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will approach this investigation with great seriousness,\u201d Barredo said at a news conference. \u201cWe will bring the people responsible for this to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow called the shooting a \u201cbrazen attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to say to the person or persons responsible, we will get you,\u201d said Chow.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Toronto Police Deputy Chief Frank Barredo speaks to media after...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/US_Consulate_Toronto_Police_58533.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Toronto Police Deputy Chief Frank Barredo speaks to media after a shot was fired at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto, on Monday, July 27, 2026. (Sammy Kogan\/The Canadian Press via AP)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow speaks to media after a shot...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/US_Consulate_Toronto_Police_1_57_.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow speaks to media after a shot was fired at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto, on Monday, July 27, 2026. (Sammy Kogan\/The Canadian Press via AP)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police leave after speaking to media after a shot was...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/US_Consulate_Toronto_Police_17_91.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police leave after speaking to media after a shot was fired at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto, on Monday, July 27, 2026. (Sammy Kogan\/The Canadian Press via AP)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 3<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Police Deputy Chief Frank Barredo speaks to media after a shot was fired at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto, on Monday, July 27, 2026. (Sammy Kogan\/The Canadian Press via AP)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><br \/>\nThe shooting occurred despite heightened security<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Consulate was targeted March 10, when two suspects allegedly fired multiple shots at the building before driving away in a stolen vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Last month police arrested Sheldon Tracy-Stewart, 18, and Zara Jabbi, 19, and charged them with multiple offenses related to the March shooting. Those charges have not been tested in court.<\/p>\n<p>Since the first incident there has been a police presence at the consulate.<\/p>\n<p>Barredo said a police cruiser was outside the consulate with its lights on at the time of the shooting, and that two security people were in the building.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are trying to determine the motive behind both incidents<\/p>\n<p>Toronto police in June said they believed multiple shootings, including the March incident, could be linked to \u201cmultilayered\u201d gun-for-hire networks that have also targeted synagogues in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend two popular Jewish-owned bakeries were targeted by gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>Barredo said police have not ruled out a connection between the two incidents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigators will follow the evidence to where it leads,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By JIM MORRIS VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) \u2014 A shooter fired at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[48,35233,47551],"class_list":["post-145980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-toronto","tag-us-consulate","tag-us-consulate-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145980","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=145980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}