Updated October 21, 2025 @ 9:26pm
The suspect in a now-cancelled Amber Alert for a one-year-old girl in Ontario has been linked to a fatal shooting earlier in the day.
Provincial police issued the alert Tuesday on behalf of police in Peel Region for the girl who had been last seen in Brampton.
The alert was cancelled after the girl was found safe.
It came after a woman was shot dead at a Brampton commercial plaza, in what police believe was a case of intimate-partner violence.
Police say the suspect fled the scene with a child in the back seat of a vehicle but the child is believed to have been dropped off with family.
The suspect is described as a 38-year-old white man with brown hair who is five-foot-nine and weighs about 180 pounds.
He is considered armed and dangerous and is believed to be in the Niagara Region community of Fort Erie.
Regional police say he is believed to be in the Crystal Beach area.
People in the area of Prospect Point and Ridgeway Road were asked to shelter in place and lock their windows and doors.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 21, 2025.
