6 dead, including suspect, after shooting at Vaughan condo building: York police chief | 24CA News
York police mentioned six individuals are useless following a capturing at a apartment tower in Vaughan on Sunday night time.
It’s unclear what drove the violence, however York Regional Police Chief Jim MacSween mentioned 5 individuals have been killed on the scene.
He mentioned a sixth sufferer was transported to hospital however is predicted to outlive. At least one girl, who was acutely aware, was seen being loaded into an ambulance when news cameras arrived on the constructing, which is on Jane Street close to Rutherford Road.
The suspect was killed throughout an interplay with police, MacSween mentioned.
Earlier, Const. Laura Nicolle mentioned police have been working with the understanding that there was a single shooter who’s now useless.
Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has been notified, police mentioned. The SIU seems to be into any incident in Ontario the place somebody has died when police are current.
Victims’ subsequent of kin being contacted, police say
Nicolle mentioned it is not recognized if there was any relation between the suspect and the victims and that the apartment constructing stays an “active, ongoing scene.”
She mentioned subsequent of kin are nonetheless being contacted, so particular data can’t be launched presently.
But Nicolle mentioned it seems that there have been victims in multiple unit within the apartment constructing.
Nicolle mentioned the capturing has left “a lot of people” displaced from their houses as police conduct their investigation.
“We want to make sure that [they] know that they’re going to be safe and that we get them back into their home as quickly as we can.”
Video from the scene confirmed dozens of emergency automobiles outdoors the constructing with their lights flashing. Officers may very well be seen patrolling the scene with heavy weapons drawn.
The City of Vaughan is situated within the Regional Municipality of York, simply north of Toronto.
