Gunfire reported near U.S. consulate in Toronto: police

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Toronto Police officers work around the scene of a shooting at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto on March 10, 2026. Police reported another incident of gunfire outside the University Avenue building on Monday, July 27.

The Toronto Police Service reported gunfire outside the U.S. consulate in downtown Toronto on Monday morning, nearly five months after the building itself was shot at in what was described as a “national security incident.”

Officers already on site “heard a firearm being discharged in the area” at 4:46 a.m. and located evidence of such outside the building at 360 University Avenue.

TPS said a white sedan fled the scene, but officers were not able to obtain a suspect description. Nobody was injured in the shooting.

Police now surround the building and University Avenue is closed to pedestrians and vehicles at Dundas Street as the investigation continues.

Anyone with information is asked to contact TPS.

More details are expected in a scrum with media from the scene later today.

Police have yet to specify if the building was targeted in the same way it was on March 10 when it was hit by gunfire from two people who fled in a white Honda CR-V. There were no injuries, and the attack was condemned by all levels of Canadian leadership, including Prime Minister Mark Carney, who labelled it “a reprehensible act of violence and attempt at intimidation.”

Three suspects in that shooting have since been arrested and charged, with police alleging they were shooters hired to attack the consulate , as well as synagogues and Jewish schools in the Toronto area, and GFL Environmental Inc. facilities and the home of at least one GFL executive.

TPS officer Constable Marc Pinizzotto, 43, was shot and killed during the arrest of suspect Nicholas Bennett, 19, earning him an additional charge of first-degree murder.

He, along with Sheldon Tracey-Stewart, 18, and Zara Jabbi, 19, are also charged with multiple firearm offences.

More to come.

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