US consulate in Toronto struck by gunfire, police say; no injuries reported

The U.S. consulate successful Toronto was struck by gunfire aboriginal Tuesday greeting successful what authorities are calling a "national information incident."

Deputy Chief Frank Barredo of the Toronto Police Service said 2 antheral suspects exited a achromatic Honda CR-V astir 4:30 a.m. and discharged firearms astatine the heavy fortified gathering earlier fleeing the scene. 

Police said the CR-V was traveling westbound connected Dundas Street West earlier turning southbound onto University Avenue, and stopping successful beforehand of the consulate.

Investigators recovered aggregate ammunition casings and recovered harm to the building’s solid and door.

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Police merchandise a photograph of the suspects’ achromatic Honda CR-V aft it was seen connected video connected Tuesday, March 10, 2026, stopping successful beforehand of the United States Consulate building. (Toronto Police Service)

Barredo said helium believes determination were radical wrong the gathering astatine the clip of the shooting, though nary injuries were reported.

Chris Leather, main superintendent and serviceman successful complaint of transgression operations for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police successful Ontario, told reporters the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team has been engaged and is moving with Toronto police, national partners and U.S. counterparts, including the FBI.

He said it is excessively aboriginal to find a motive oregon whether the shooting volition yet beryllium classified arsenic coercion nether Canada’s transgression code.

"There volition beryllium nary tolerance for immoderate signifier of intimidation, harassment, oregon harmful targeting of immoderate communities oregon individuals successful Canada," Leather added.

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Deputy Chief Frank Barredo speaks during a briefing astatine 360 University Ave. with an update connected a firearm discharge astatine the U.S. Consulate successful Toronto connected March 10, 2026. (Wa Lone/Reuters)

Security has been accrued astatine the U.S. and Israeli consulates successful Toronto and successful the Ottawa portion arsenic a precaution. 

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Officials said determination is nary denotation of an ongoing menace to nationalist information arsenic the probe continues.

A State Department authoritative told Fox News Digital the bureau is alert of the incidental and is intimately monitoring the concern successful coordination with section instrumentality enforcement.

Toronto Police officers enactment astatine the country of a shooting astatine the U.S. Consulate successful Toronto connected March 10, 2026. (Cole Burston/AFP via Getty Images)

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"The shooting that took spot astatine the U.S. consulate aboriginal this greeting is an perfectly unacceptable enactment of unit and intimidation aimed astatine our American friends and neighbours," said Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario.

"Everyone astatine each levels of authorities and crossed Canada needs to marque wide that determination is zero tolerance for this benignant of intimidating and unsafe behaviour, and that we volition bash immoderate it takes to prosecute and punish the radical liable to the fullest grade of the law," helium wrote connected X.