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Toronto deputy chief Frank Barredo said a high-speed chase
ensued that lasted an hour, but that no arrest was made. He
vowed that the search for the perpetrator or perpetrators would
continue.
“We will approach this investigation with great seriousness,”
Barredo said at a news conference. “We will bring the people
responsible for this to justice.”
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow called the shooting a “brazen attack.”
“I want to say to the person or persons responsible, we will get
you,” said Chow.
The shooting occurred despite heightened security
The U.S. Consulate was targeted March 10, when two suspects
allegedly fired multiple shots at the building before driving
away in a stolen vehicle.
Last month police arrested Sheldon Tracy-Stewart, 18, and Zara
Jabbi, 19, and charged them with multiple offenses related to
the March shooting. Those charges have not been tested in court.
Since the first incident there has been a police presence at the
consulate.
Barredo said a police cruiser was outside the consulate with its
lights on at the time of the shooting, and that two security
people were in the building.
Authorities are trying to determine the motive behind both
incidents
Toronto police in June said they believed multiple shootings,
including the March incident, could be linked to “multilayered”
gun-for-hire networks that have also targeted synagogues in the
city.
Over the weekend two popular Jewish-owned bakeries were targeted
by gunfire.
Barredo said police have not ruled out a connection between the
two incidents.
“Investigators will follow the evidence to where it leads,” he
said.
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