2 people killed in mass shooting at Toronto's Salsa on St. Clair festival

And you're watching City News 24 -7.We continue to follow breaking news here of a shooting in the West End.I am here by St. Clair Avenue West in Arlington area.This is actually the scene of where Salsa on St. Clair event was actually underway when a shooting took place here.Toronto police say that they got calls just after 8, 10 p .m.

again in the St. Clair and Arlington Avenue area.They say that they were here for reports of a shooting, initially reporting an active shooter on scene.and that there were multiple injuries that were reported.Now police have provided an update on this.You can actually see right now there are still officers that are still walking along the street along St. Clair Avenue West.You can see that there are several here that they are all they're all sort of coming together here as of course they can still continue to canvas the area.

There are firearms in their hands.unsure of right now what they're essentially looking for but again as this continues to be an active situation again with Toronto Police providing an update saying that six people were located with gunshot wounds, two people pronounced dead on scene.As you can see here police remain on scene and according to Toronto Police the suspect or suspects are still outstanding.They're continuing to provide information on this but you can clearly see this continues to be a very well and active scene.All of the attendees of Salsalon event no longer here, but we've heard multiple people that were here earlier.once we started getting reports about this shooting, that there was an immediate sort of chaos, for lack of a better word.

Everyone trying to run for safety when they started to hear something that was happening.I actually have one person here that was just seeing the aftermath.I'm going to bring in here with me.Alexandra, thank you so much for joining me here on City News 24 -7.You said that you work at a cafe.You didn't necessarily hear the shooting, but what did you hear in the aftermath?

We saw the swarm of people just running towards that way on St. Clair, trampling all the patios, all of the tents.Like, people were trying to get inside and all of the doors just swarming our tents.Like, we got pushed and the table against the wall.But yeah, everybody was scared.

And when you saw the people, was it like a large swath of people just sort of running in every direction?Were they all trying to run in one direction?All going away, one direction, all going away.And for how many minutes did that necessarily happen for?

Two or three minutes, yeah.

And at that point, did you come out, did you start asking questions, or did you just think it was just, did you find it strange?

People just said that they heard loud noises and I feel like it happens pretty often people hear a loud noise and they think it's gunshots.I didn't immediately think it was gunshots until I started getting messages and other people started saying oh I saw it I saw it and then I saw the sirens.

And so after the fact now you're seeing we're all seeing right now police here that are out here on St. Clair Avenue West and you're still starting to hear some of the details continuing to unfold of just what happened here.during Salson St. Clair, I mean, what goes through your mind?

It's really sad because I live right there and I've been coming to this festival for so many years and it's like my favorite time of the year like for working and coming here with my family and like Latin Fest I feel like is one of the most fun ones as a Mexican and like it's really sad because it might not happen tomorrow and it's really sad that there's people to ruin it and that it's become such a sad day but yeah, tragic.

I appreciate it and please stay safe.a couple of blocks actually we haven't been able to see the other side but here already just by st. Clair and Arlington several officers some with their firearms in their hands here as we've also just seen as well according to the Toronto Police tweet that police again as I mentioned on scene suspect or suspects still outstanding again if you are just joining us here on City News 24 7 we are following breaking news about a shooting that happened in the West End just near the Salsa on St. Clair event that was underway and in an update from Toronto Police six people located with gunshot wounds two people pronounced dead on scene.Given that it was a Salsa on St. Clair event it was a beautiful day and it was during the midst of the event so there were dozens if not hundreds of people here for this event and you can imagine the chaos when the sound of gunshots started going off we just heard Alexandra just saying right now that she didn't necessarily hear the gunshots but the aftermath of it everyone trying to run for safety trying to run for cover some of them not really knowing what exactly had happened but some of them again just trying to find some sort of shelter some sort of safety here we are We are waiting for Toronto Police to provide again another update on this.We are told that Toronto Police should be providing a scrum at some point.We will continue to remain on scene here as it continues to develop here.Again, you are watching City News 24 -7 breaking news, a shooting that happened on St. Clair Avenue West during the Salsa on St. Clair event.

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