Latest details of the Vaughan, Ontario mass shooting

People, including a gunman, are dead after a horrific

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at a Vaughn condo. Good afternoon, The

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occurred last night at a condominium complex on Jane Street near Rutherford Road. Five people died before the gunman died after a confrontation with police. CTV's Janice Golding is live. on the scene with more information on this story Janice hi Nathan we are still learning new information in fact as we speak a press conference is expected to begin with the special investigations unit the police are on scene as well as the SIU after six people were shot and killed, including the alleged gunman in this building right behind us, thank you, emergency workers load a person into a waiting ambulance while heavily armed police officers surround a condo on Gene Rutherford, they run so much I don't believe I had the idea to clean up the scene, five people in the building had been shot and killed, another wounded person and Kat would find out that a shooter was on the loose, so I took the pier for a walk and then entered the scene of a firefighter. performing CPR on someone and it was really, I would say, a traumatic experience for everyone watching and I guess you know, I didn't know what was going on inside, no one was really saying anything, but as soon as SWAT arrived we knew there was a shooter in the building, so, yeah, we pretty much went home and locked our doors, the 73-year-old gunman would be killed after an interaction with police, there's no further threat to the community at this time, and right now we're just.

I offer my sincere condolences to the families of the victims. Multiple reports indicate that the victims were found in different units of the building on behalf of Vaughn's people. I want to offer my sincere condolences to the families of the victims who lost their lives yesterday in the shooting. I know we all sincerely hope for a speedy recovery for the individual who was injured. John Santoro says the scene last night was terrifying. I heard a commotion in the hallway and when I opened the door, the police were in the hallway and basically, uh. He had a rifle that wasn't pointed directly at me, but there were two officers with rifles right outside my door in the elevator.

Lobby Santoro says the alleged shooter lived in the building. I've had it in my apartment several times. You know, he wasn't a monster. I think he was just someone who was failed by the system. The building resident also says the shooter had problems with several people, including members of the condo board. I think in some ways I was lucky to be trying to help him. I wasn't trying to help him. My story could have changed tremendously last night. They were first called about a shooting in progress around 7:20 last night. When they arrived, there was an interaction between an officer and an armed man and the officer fired shots. gun, the man would be pronounced dead at the scene and a press conference at the scene is underway now, this is with the special investigations unit, let's see what we can find out.

I mean, I'd be speculating, however, I think there would be something to it. to do with the man who shot at people, the police recovered a gun the police and the SIU recovered a gun yes, what was it like what type of gun was the gun, a semi-automatic pistol, was it there, would have been, however, no I have

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beyond what the weapon was, that it was a semi-automatic pistol that he fired at the police, how long the confrontation lasted between the time the police saw him and spoke to him and I don't have

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about that, all I have The police were called around 7:20 and the man was terminated around 8 p.m. m., so at some point in that period we were hearing, as I said before, the SIU really the focus of the SIU is potential criminality involving the police and the person who was murdered.

The focus of York Regional Police's investigation would be a more circumstantial motive. Then it would be York who would be investigating the homicide. Little background. I do not have any information regarding the possible criminal history of the man he was. murdered, can you confirm if he was murdered by the police and if there was an exchange? I don't think there was an exchange of gunfire. I have no information about it. I believe it was an officer who shot the man and he was killed, did the suspected shooter have more than one gun? I know he said one was recovered.

Were there more guns? A recovered one. A recovered pistol. That's the information I have. Can you talk about any life-saving efforts? After he went. Yes, the information I have is that paramedics were called and they took the man to an ambulance and pronounced him deceased at the scene and in terms of timeline, you said they called the police. It's at 7:20. What time was the man shot? and they killed him like that an hour later, you know, 20 minutes, yeah. I really can't confirm that all I can confirm is that the man was pronounced deceased shortly after 8 p.m. and that the initial calls came in around 7:20.

Can you provide me? genders and ages of the victims are not, however, I understand that York will have their press conference around two in the afternoon, so I imagine there will be more information that, regardless of the fact that we are all residents of the building, the victims is something I can give more details. I have no confirmation as to whether they were residents. I would suspect they were. However, I really don't know for sure if there was one officer at Montgomery Medical Hospital or if there were dedicated officers and only one of them is charged, as I understand it.

It was one officer who fired, there may be more officers, however, one officer discharged, therefore, if in the context of the SIU investigation there is a subject officer who has been designated and that would be the officer who fired a firearm and shot. and he killed a man, can he? I don't know if he has to support or if he shares this, but were they all several stories? I don't really have information on the context, the information I have and can confirm is that there were several deceased located on several floors and do you know if you were looking for other victims at the time the police found them?

He I don't know, I can't, I can't talk about that, really yes, you said that all the shootings took place in the hallways or if he entered or forced his way into any unit. I can't say, I really don't know. I know where specifically the shooting took place. All I have is that there were several deceased located on several floors, where he was shot and killed again in a hallway. That's the information I have. Do you know of a unit and it had that interaction? with police when he left the unit. I don't have details about that, no, no, just that he was in a hallway and how many shots were faster, more than one shot, there was some exchange of you know, not a conversation, but an exchange of words.

No, I don't know at this time, yes, so, right now, interviews are taking place, there will be an interview request for the officer in question, the officer who fired the gun, and there may be potential officers who would be designated as civilians. subject officers and witness officers and then there would be potential civilian witnesses being interviewed, so those investigations are ongoing at this time and more details will be released upon the conclusion of our investigation. I don't have specific information about where he was shot, no. I would have to answer you in which part of his body he was strong.

I don't know at this moment. Sorry, did you say he was actively shooting when the police found and killed him? I don't have that, do I? I know what the process the police would follow would be to identify the suspect. What would they do after they shot him? I'm not trying to understand. So you're watching a live press conference with the SIU. This is the police watchdog they've called. because last night a police officer shot the shooter and that shooter died, so they are going to investigate that aspect of this, we just learned that a gun was recovered, a semi-automatic pistol and also the five deceased people.

They were shot, they were found on several floors and from the time the police were called to the time the shooter was killed was approximately 40 minutes, so this is just in the early stages, you could see a flurry of questions, There are still many things we don't know. I don't know that York police will be holding a press conference this afternoon where we hope to learn more about all of the victims in this story and we will let you know.