Toronto police have charged a 35-year-old Brampton man with firearms offences after a shooting incident that police say targeted a Jewish-owned business in the city over the weekend.
Police responded to reports of gunshots near Avenue Road and Brooke Avenue in north Toronto at about 1:28 a.m. on April 3, according to a police report. A suspect was seen fleeing the scene in a dark-coloured SUV. No injuries were reported.
A Jewish-owned restaurant was targeted in the incident, police said at an April 8 news conference.
Two days after the incident, police executed a search warrant in Brampton, where a suspect was apprehended, the report says. Officers from the Integrated Gun and Gang Task Force, with support from the Hate Crime Unit and the Service’s Counter Terrorism Security Unit, were involved in the arrest….