{"id":84548,"date":"2026-06-11T22:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/84548\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T22:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:00:27","slug":"police-officer-in-toronto-killed-in-shooting-linked-to-investigation-of-a-us-consulate-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/84548\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer in Toronto killed in shooting linked to investigation of a US Consulate attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) \u2014 A Toronto police officer was shot and killed Thursday by a suspect in the investigation into a shooting attack<\/a> that damaged the facade of the U.S. Consulate in the Canadian city in March, police said.<\/p>\n

One 19-year-old suspect was in custody at a hospital in critical condition while officers searched for a second suspect, who was identified as 19-year-old Zara Jabbi and was considered armed and dangerous, Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw said at a news conference. \u201cI urge you to turn yourself in,\u201d Demkiw said. <\/p>\n

Police officer Marc Pinizotto, who was 43 and had been on the force for 18 years, died of his wounds in a hospital, Demkiw said. <\/p>\n

Canadian police had said in March that two individuals emerged from a white Honda RV SUV<\/a> at around 4:30 a.m. and fired multiple shots at the consulate building before fleeing. The shooting damaged the outside of the building but did not cause any injuries.<\/p>\n

The consulate attack in March followed heightened tensions over the war<\/a> launched by the U.S. and Israel against Iran in late February, and it had followed gunfire attacks on two Toronto-area synagogues<\/a> the previous weekend. <\/p>\n

The investigation that led to Pinizotto\u2019s death \u201cconcerned a number of shootings, including the shooting at the United States consulate on University Avenue. There were several search warrants executed this morning,\u201d Demkiw said.<\/p>\n

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow said she\u2019s known the mother of the deceased officer for the 20 years. <\/p>\n

\u201cTheir grief is shared across this city,\u201d Chow said. <\/p>\n

The officer was shot in the early morning in an apartment unit, said Monica Hudon of Ontario\u2019s Special Investigations Unit, which investigates incidents involving police officers where there has been a death. The suspect shot first, Hudon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) \u2014 A Toronto police officer was shot and killed Thursday by a suspect in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[32893,32895,32894,47,592,11530,1803,5044,32896,4080,6983,48,218,32897],"class_list":["post-84548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-2024-2025-mideast-wars","tag-2024-2026-mideast-wars","tag-assault","tag-crime","tag-general-news","tag-gun-violence","tag-international-news","tag-law-enforcement","tag-marc-pinizotto","tag-olivia-chow","tag-shootings","tag-toronto","tag-world-news","tag-zara-jabbi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84548","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=84548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}