Toronto police officer shot while investigating attack on US consulate
Key takeaways
- Police say one suspect is still at large after a constable was fatally shot while executing a search warrant linked to a March consulate attack.
- Toronto police chief Myron Demkiw said on Thursday that 43-year-old constable Marc Pinizzotto was shot while executing a search warrant related to the case and later died of his wounds in the hospital.
- Demkiw explained that the warrant “concerned a number of shootings, including the shooting at the United States consulate” and that several warrants had been executed that morning.
Why this matters: an international story with cross-border implications worth tracking.
Police say one suspect is still at large after a constable was fatally shot while executing a search warrant linked to a March consulate attack.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Police officers work at the scene of a shooting at the US Consulate in Toronto, Canada, on March 10, 2026 [Cole Burston/AFP]By Al Jazeera Staff, AFP and The Associated Press Published On 11 Jun 202611 Jun 2026A police officer in the Canadian city of Toronto has been shot and killed while investigating a shooting attack that targeted the United States consulate in March, according to local authorities.
Toronto police chief Myron Demkiw said on Thursday that 43-year-old constable Marc Pinizzotto was shot while executing a search warrant related to the case and later died of his wounds in the hospital.