{"id":46297,"date":"2025-07-07T15:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/46297\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T15:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:32:09","slug":"shots-fired-in-torontos-yorkville-neighbourhood-restaurant-damaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/46297\/","title":{"rendered":"Shots fired in Toronto\u2019s Yorkville neighbourhood; restaurant damaged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police were called to Mimi Chinese restaurant on Davenport Rd. near Avenue Rd. after reports of gunshots. No injuries were reported. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police say a building that houses a popular restaurant and a separate nightclub in Toronto\u2019s Yorkville neighbourhood was damaged for the second time after shots were fired in the area early Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to police, officers were called to Avenue and Davenport roads for reports of the sound of gunshots shortly before 1:30 a.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police arrived to find evidence of gunfire at the scene and damage to the building that houses MIMI Chinese and Parc Ave nightclub.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No injuries were reported and police say the investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FIREARM DISCHARGE:<br \/>Davenport Rd &amp; Avenue Rd <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPS53Div?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TPS53DIV<\/a><br \/>1:28 am<br \/>-police responded to the sound of gunshots in the area<br \/>-officers arrived on scene and located damage to a restaurant<br \/>-evidence of gunfire located on scene<br \/>-no injuries reported<br \/>-ongoing investigation<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GO1411183?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#GO1411183<\/a><br \/>^sm<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPSOperations\/status\/1942165731736469853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It is the second time in the past week that the building has been damaged by gunfire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shots struck the building at around 11:30 p.m. on July 1, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Images from the scene last week showed what appeared to be at least eight bullet holes in the shattered front windows of the establishment, located at 265 Davenport Rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a statement to CTV News Toronto, a spokesperson for MIMI said staff believe the restaurant was not the intended target of the shooting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police have not said whether investigators believe the nightclub was targeted.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police were called to Mimi Chinese restaurant on Davenport Rd. near Avenue Rd. after reports of gunshots. No&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4717,2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-46297","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\/114812678769573123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46297","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=46297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}