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Someone fired shots astatine the U.S. consulate successful Toronto aboriginal Tuesday morning, authorities said, though determination were nary reports of injuries oregon damage.
"The shooting that took spot astatine the U.S. consulate aboriginal this greeting is an perfectly unacceptable enactment of unit and intimidation aimed astatine our American friends and neighbours," Ontario Premier Doug Ford said successful a societal media post. "I'm gladsome to spot that the Toronto Police are investigating and I expect that constabulary astatine each levels volition bring each assets to carnivore to find the radical who did this."
"We volition bash immoderate it takes to prosecute and punish the radical liable to the fullest grade of the law," Ford said.
Police said earlier that officers responded to reports of shots being fired aboriginal successful the greeting adjacent the U.S. consulate, wherever investigators recovered "evidence of a firearm discharged" astatine the country successful the downtown Toronto area. No accusation was disposable astir a motive oregon astir immoderate imaginable suspect, the constabulary said successful a societal media post. There were nary reports of injuries oregon spot damage, according to the police.
Law enforcement unit survey the country extracurricular the U.S. Consulate successful Toronto, Canada, aft shots were fired, March 10, 2026.
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A State Department spokesperson told CBS News that the U.S. was alert of the incidental and intimately monitoring the concern successful coordination with section instrumentality enforcement, but had nary further comment.
The shooting came conscionable days aft 2 synagogues were deed by overnight gunfire successful the greater Toronto area, prompting an accrued constabulary presence. Police said determination were nary injuries from those incidents, either, but slug holes were recovered successful the beforehand doorway of 1 synagogue.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called the shootings astatine the synagogues an battle connected the rights of Jewish Canadians to unrecorded and commune successful safety, and helium promised to support places of worship.
It was unclear if the firing astatine the synagogues and the shots fired extracurricular the U.S. consulate were linked to each other, oregon the ongoing warfare U.S.-Israeli warfare with Iran.
Canadian broadcaster CTV said determination were roadworthy closures successful spot successful downtown Toronto, and Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow said determination was a dense constabulary beingness astatine some the U.S. and Israeli consulates successful the city.
"This greeting the U.S. consulate was changeable at. This comes aft shootings astatine synagogues implicit the past 2 weekends. This cannot stand," Chow told reporters up of a metropolis assembly meeting. "Toronto's Jewish assemblage has the close to signifier their religion and civilization and to unrecorded their time to time lives without fear, intimidation oregon violence."
Chow said constabulary were investigating and had the afloat enactment of her bureau successful "finding the radical liable and bringing them to justice."
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