Five people, including three youths, are facing charges after gunshots were fired from a vehicle towards a group of people on the street in the city\u2019s east end following a fight earlier this month.<\/p>\n
The shooting happened on July 5 in the Leslieville neighbourhood, near Gerrard Street East and Coxwell Avenue.<\/p>\n
Toronto police said they responded to a call for a shooting in that area just before midnight.<\/p>\n
Investigators allege that an altercation broke out between two groups of people \u2013 one in a vehicle and another on the street.<\/p>\n
They say a gun was then shot from the vehicle towards the group on the street.<\/p>\n
No one was injured, but a property was damaged, police say.<\/p>\n
Members of Toronto police\u2019s Gun and Gang Task Force \u2013 Centralized Shooting Response Team launched an investigation and identified five suspects in connection with this shooting.<\/p>\n
On July 18, two male youths were arrested and charged with unauthorized possession of a firearm in a motor vehicle. The accused, who cannot be named under the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, were scheduled to appear in bail court the following day.<\/p>\n
Further, on Thursday, July 24, 2025, officers executed a Criminal Code search warrant in the Gerrard-Coxwell area in connection with this firearms investigation. At that time, officers allegedly seized a loaded 9 mm Ruger-semi automatic handgun and a loaded .45 calibre Ruger semi-automatic handgun.<\/p>\n
Faebian Dos Santos, 19, of Toronto, was subsequently arrested. He is facing numerous firearms-related charges. <\/p>\n
Kayleigh Williamson, 20, of Toronto, was also arrested and charged with possession of a loaded prohibited\/restricted firearm, possession of a firearm knowing serial number has been tampered with, and fail to comply with release order.<\/p>\n
Both Dos Santos and Williamson were scheduled to appear in bail court on July 25.<\/p>\n
A female youth, of Toronto, was also arrested and charged with possession of a prohibited\/restricted firearm and possession of a firearm knowing serial number has been tampered with. The accused, who cannot be named, he had a July 25 court date.<\/p>\n
All of the charges have not been proven in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five people, including three youths, are facing charges after gunshots were fired from a vehicle towards a group…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":101625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4717,2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-101624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114935625725989723","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}