An 18-year-old Toronto man has been charged with shooting at the U.S. consulate in March, a court document says.<\/p>\n
Toronto police arrested Sheldon Tracy-Stewart, of Toronto, on Thursday and charged him with 11 offences.<\/p>\n
Tracy-Stewart is accused of discharging a firearm at the consulate at 360 University Ave. on March 10 and committing “a violent attack on the official premises of an internationally protected person, namely Consul General Baxter Hunt, that was likely to endanger his life or liberty,” the document said.<\/p>\n
The other charges include: theft of a motor vehicle; possession of stolen property; escape from lawful custody; defacing or removing a serial number on a firearm; failure to appear; two counts of possession of an illegal firearm; and two counts of possession of a loaded illegal firearm.<\/p>\n
No one was injured in the consulate shooting, but RCMP called it a “national security incident” at the time.<\/p>\n
News of the arrest and charges comes after a Toronto police officer, Const. Marc Pinizzotto, 43, died after he was shot on Thursday while police were carrying out search warrants in connection with shootings in the city, including one at the U.S. Consulate in March.<\/p>\n
Police have said Nicholas Bennett, 19, of Toronto, will be charged with first-degree murder of Pinizzotto. Bennett is currently in hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n
According to Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit, police were carrying out a search warrant in a fourth-floor apartment unit in a building on Martha Eaton Way, near Tretheway Drive and Black Creek Drive, when Pinizzotto was shot.<\/p>\n
The court document shows Tracy-Stewart also lives on Martha Eaton Way but at a different address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old Toronto man has been charged with shooting at the U.S. consulate in March, a court document…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33284,32879,33281,33283,48,3100,33282],"class_list":["post-86219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-court-document","tag-marc-pinizzotto","tag-nicholas-bennett","tag-sheldon-tracy-stewart","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-police","tag-tracy-stewart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86219","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=86219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}