Updated March 8, 2025 @ 11:37am
Toronto mayor Olivia Chow says she is "deeply troubled" by a mass shooting in the city's east end that left 12 people injured, half of them with serious injuries.
Chow said she was working at city hall late Friday night when news broke about the shooting. She has been in touch with the Toronto police and has been getting regular updates, she said.
She said 12 people were injured, including six with serious gunshot wounds.
"It is troubling because of the magnitude of the shootings and the number of people hurt, and I don't want to speculate as to the why and how," Chow told reporters Saturday morning at a news conference.
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Supt. Paul MacIntyre of Organized Crime Enforcement told reporters at the scene of the shooting Friday night that at 10:39 p.m. three masked male suspects -- one armed with an assault rifle and the other two with handguns -- walked into the bar and opened fire "indiscriminately" on the people sitting at Piper Arms at 520 Progress Avenue.
The motive for the shooting remains unclear and police are chasing down all leads, he said.
"I can tell you, this was a brazen and reckless act of violence that's really shaken our community and the city itself," he said.t of violence that's really shaken our community and the city itself," he said.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 8, 2025.
