Europe 1 with AFP 7:45 a.m., December 19, 2022, modified at 7:45 a.m., December 19, 2022
Five people were killed and another injured Sunday in a shooting in the suburbs of Toronto, in eastern Canada, police said.
Police are now investigating the motive for the killings and whether there was a connection between the victims and the suspect, an unnamed man.
Five people were killed and another injured Sunday in a shooting in the suburbs of Toronto, in eastern Canada, police said.
The suspect is also believed to have died after a firefight with law enforcement, local police chief Jim MacSween told reporters.
The injured person was taken to hospital and his life is not in danger.
Dozens of ambulances and police on site
In the early evening, the police were called for shooting and "once they arrived on the scene, the officers were confronted with a terrible scene with several people already deceased", explained Jim MacSween in front of the press, according to Canadian media.
Police are now investigating the motive for the killings and whether there was a connection between the victims and the suspect, an unnamed man.
The suspect allegedly acted alone.
As for the victims, they were found in different apartments in the building, which is located in Vaughan, a city located about thirty kilometers north of Toronto (Ontario).
Residents of the building were evacuated immediately and dozens of ambulances and police were on the scene in the evening, Canadian media said.
However, Canada is experiencing an upsurge in such violent acts.
Less familiar with mass shootings than its American neighbor, Canada is, however, experiencing an upsurge in violent acts of this type, which prompted the authorities to recently legislate to ban handguns.
In April 2020, a gunman disguised as a police officer killed 22 people in Nova Scotia, in the east of the country, the worst killing recorded in Canada.
In September, a man killed 11 people and stabbed 18 others, mostly in an isolated indigenous community in the center of the country.