At least two people were killed and others injured after a gunfight Saturday shortly after 8 p.m. at a Latin festival in Toronto, Canada.
The New York Post reported that two people were dead at the scene and “five people were…treated for gunshot wounds.”
CBC noted that the incident occurred at the Salsa on St. Clair event when “at least two people exchanged gunfire while moving through the crowd.” No arrests were made.
Witnesses at the festival described screaming and people fleeing for cover when the shots rang out.
Toronto Police stand guard on St. Clair Avenue West near Arlington Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on July 11, 2026. Two people were killed and five wounded in a shooting near Canada’s largest Latin street festival Saturday. (Mert Alper DervıÅ/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Patsy Gutierrez, a Salsa on St. Clair vendor, said, “Everybody started getting frantic, and then we stopped serving. I don’t think it should be something that’s happening in these type[s] of events.”
Another witness, Valerie Rodriguez, was sitting by a restaurant near where the shooting occurred. She said, “A bunch of people … told us to lay down onto the floor. We got scared because we didn’t know exactly what was happening.”
Canada is stringently gun-controlled, but on June 22, 2026, Breitbart News pointed to a report in the Toronto Sun highlighting Canada’s “serious crime problem.”
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