{"id":34692,"date":"2026-05-06T19:50:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/34692\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:50:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:50:57","slug":"toronto-police-charge-teenager-in-shooting-of-two-synagogues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/34692\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Police charge teenager in shooting of two synagogues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 18-year-old man was charged with shooting at two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/toronto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto<\/a>-area synagogues in March; the Toronto Police Service and York Regional Police announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-894846\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suspect<\/a>, who is not being named because he was 17-years-old when he allegedly fired shots at the Shaarei Shomayim synagogue and Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto (the BAYT), has been charged with two counts of discharging a firearm into a place, two counts of mischief to property over $5000, unauthorized possession of a firearm in a vehicle, unauthorized possession of a firearm, possessing a prohibited devices, careless storage of a prohibited device, and occupying a vehicle with a prohibited device.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">On Friday, Canadian law enforcement had announced that they were seeking a suspect for his involvement in both shootings.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect had allegedly fired at the BAYT on March 6, causing damage to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-895231\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">synagogue&#8217;s<\/a> front doors. Two people were inside the house of worship at the time, but were not injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Just after midnight on March 7, the suspect also allegedly fired shots at Shaarei Shomayim, again damaging a front entrance.<\/p>\n<p>The two incidents were preceded by a March 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-895300\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shooting<\/a> at the Temple Emanu\u2011El synagogue, leaving multiple bullet holes in the synagogue&#8217;s front windows.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old man was charged with shooting at two Toronto-area synagogues in March; the Toronto Police Service and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3124,15354,47,10177,48,10980],"class_list":{"0":"post-34692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto","8":"tag-antisemitism","9":"tag-canada-attack","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-synagogue","12":"tag-toronto","13":"tag-violence"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34692","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=34692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}