{"id":254819,"date":"2025-03-08T16:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T16:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/at-least-12-injured-in-toronto-pub-shooting\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T16:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T16:36:15","slug":"at-least-12-injured-in-toronto-pub-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/at-least-12-injured-in-toronto-pub-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"At Least 12 Injured in Toronto Pub Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/08\/multimedia\/08xp-toronto-fgtj\/08xp-toronto-fgtj-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"At Least 12 Injured in Toronto Pub Shooting\" title=\"At Least 12 Injured in Toronto Pub Shooting\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Three men wearing masks and carrying handguns and an assault rifle entered a pub in Toronto late Friday night and \u201copened fire indiscriminately,\u201d injuring 12 people, the police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Six people were taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds, Paul MacIntyre, a police superintendent with the organized crime enforcement unit, said during a news conference on Saturday, and six were otherwise injured, including by broken or flying glass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But, he added, \u201cby the grace of God,\u201d there were no fatalities. The suspects remained at large, the police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was a typical night at a neighborhood pub, Superintendent MacIntire said. People stood at the bar or sat at booths, socializing with friends over food and drinks, as the bar, Piper Arms, on Progress Avenue in the Scarborough district, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DG6PKPxu-Zs\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">celebrated its opening night<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Then at around 10:40 p.m., three men burst into the pub and \u201cjust looked at the crowd and opened fire,\u201d said Superintendent MacIntyre, who reviewed surveillance video of the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Patrons began \u201cducking for cover or they\u2019re falling on the floor because they\u2019ve been struck,\u201d he said. Some of the patrons tried to escape the shooting, fleeing to the basement to hide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The suspects then got into a vehicle and drove away, the police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhen officers arrived on scene, there were some people laying on the floor,\u201d Superintendent MacIntyre said. \u201cThere were others sitting in the booth or the chairs, sitting where they\u2019d been shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The shooting left behind an \u201ceerie\u201d crime scene, he said, with food abandoned at tables, scattered shoes and handbags, shattered glass walls and \u201cblood all over the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Calls to the Piper Arms on Saturday were not immediately picked up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Superintendent MacIntyre said that the police had \u201cno idea\u201d where the suspects were, and that their motive was still unclear.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Asked if they posed a danger to the general public, he said it was \u201chard to say \u2018no,\u2019\u201d adding: \u201cWhat we had right now is we had three guys walk into a pub and open fire. So yeah, I\u2019m concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis was a brazen and reckless act of violence that\u2019s really shaken our community and the city itself,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MayorOliviaChow\/status\/1898241320214278513\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">social media post<\/a> early Saturday, Mayor Olivia Chow called it \u201can early and ongoing investigation,\u201d adding that she was \u201cdeeply troubled\u201d by the reports of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMy thoughts are with the victims and their families,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/08\/world\/canada\/toronto-pub-shooting.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three men wearing masks and carrying handguns and an assault rifle entered a pub in Toronto late Friday night and \u201copened fire indiscriminately,\u201d injuring 12 people, the police said. Six people were taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds, Paul MacIntyre, a police superintendent with the organized crime enforcement unit, said during a news conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/08\/multimedia\/08xp-toronto-fgtj\/08xp-toronto-fgtj-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[183086,19,197065,6273,36286,1566,25915,187586],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254821,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254819\/revisions\/254821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}