Gunman fired at US consulate in Toronto, second time building was shot at this year

A gunman fired astatine the U.S. Consulate successful Toronto connected Monday, marking the 2nd clip this twelvemonth idiosyncratic changeable astatine the building, according to authorities.

A azygous ammunition casing was recovered astatine the scene, and determination was harm to the building's facade.

No injuries were reported successful the incident.

"The U.S. Embassy and Consulates successful Canada are unfastened and operating normally, though immoderate regular U.S. national services successful Toronto are being rescheduled," the consulate said successful a statement.

GUNFIRE SHATTERS TORONTO LATIN STREET FESTIVAL, LEAVING AT LEAST 2 DEAD AND MULTIPLE WOUNDED

Police astatine the country of a shooting extracurricular the US Consulate successful Toronto, connected Monday, July 27, 2026. (Sammy Kogan/The Canadian Press via AP)

Toronto Deputy Police Chief Frank Barredo said determination was a high-speed pursuit aft the shooting that lasted an hour. However, nary apprehension was made and Barredo committed to continuing the hunt for those involved.

"We volition attack this probe with large seriousness," Barredo said astatine a quality conference. "We volition bring the radical liable for this to justice."

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow described the shooting arsenic a "brazen attack."

"I privation to accidental to the idiosyncratic oregon persons responsible, we volition get you," she said.

This was the 2nd shooting targeting the U.S. Consulate this year, with the archetypal coming connected March 10, erstwhile 2 suspects allegedly fired aggregate shots astatine the gathering earlier driving distant successful a stolen vehicle.

Toronto Police Deputy Chief Frank Barredo astatine a property league aft a changeable was fired astatine the U.S. Consulate successful Toronto, connected Monday, July 27, 2026. (Sammy Kogan/The Canadian Press via AP)

Sheldon Tracy-Stewart, 18, and Zara Jabbi, 19, were arrested past period and charged with aggregate offenses successful transportation with the March shooting. The allegations person not been tested successful court.

A constabulary beingness has been seen astatine the consulate since the archetypal shooting.

Barredo said a patrol conveyance was extracurricular the consulate with its lights connected erstwhile the shooting happened. Two information unit were besides successful the building.

Last month, constabulary said they believed aggregate shootings, including the 1 successful March, could beryllium tied to "multilayered" gun-for-hire networks that person besides targeted Toronto synagogues.

Two fashionable Jewish-owned bakeries were targeted by gunfire implicit the weekend.

US CONSULATE IN TORONTO STRUCK BY GUNFIRE, POLICE SAY; NO INJURIES REPORTED

Police investigating aft a changeable was fired astatine the U.S. Consulate successful Toronto, connected Monday, July 27, 2026. (Sammy Kogan/The Canadian Press via AP)

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Barredo said constabulary had not ruled retired a transportation betwixt Monday's consulate shooting and the attacks connected the bakeries. The motive for the consulate shooting remains nether investigation.

"Investigators volition travel the grounds to wherever it leads," helium said.

Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, said helium was "disgusted" by the caller unit successful Toronto.

"I’m wholly disgusted by the shootings and vandalism that took spot successful Toronto implicit the past fewer days, including astatine 2 Jewish-owned businesses implicit the play and adjacent the U.S. Consulate this morning," helium said connected X. "In each cases, progressive constabulary investigations are underway. I expect each those liable to beryllium found, prosecuted and punished to the fullest grade of the law."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.