Toronto Police Confirm Four Injured in Shooting at Raptors Celebration

Police are on the scene at the Raptors parade Monday and looking into a potential shooting.

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Toronto police confirmed a shooting took place at the Raptors championship celebration at Nathan Phillips Square on Monday.

Police said four victims were located, none with life threatening injuries, according to the Toronto Police Operations Centre. Three individuals were arrested, with two guns recoverd by police. 

People from the crowd began running away from the back east corner of Nathan Phillip's Square near the Eaton Centre.

Members of the Raptors were on stage when this started happening, and there was an announcement of a break in the action, but speeches resumed almost immediately after the pause.

SHOOTING:
Nathan Phillip's Square
-Reports of woman shot
-People running from area
-Police/EMS are on scene
-Unknown what the injuries are#GO112676
^dh

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) June 17, 2019

Gunshots fired at the parade at the back south east corner of Nathan Phillips Square. One witness said four shots. Crowd ran. There is a victim down being given medical attention, surrounded by a crowd, and police are clearing people from the area. Speeches are still going on.

— Bruce Arthur (@bruce_arthur) June 17, 2019

Crowd on east side running again. Cops said get down. Oh no.

— Bruce Arthur (@bruce_arthur) June 17, 2019

Stay away from the eaton centre. Please just ran in there, and crowd just ran away. If you’re in the area, get down.

— Bruce Arthur (@bruce_arthur) June 17, 2019

I’m on the roof of city hall and something is happening. People are running including what looks to be cops and security pic.twitter.com/FEbhw88OqI

— Jennifer Pagliaro (@jpags) June 17, 2019

ppl have been running from the back of the stage for some reason. hope everyone’s safe. #RaptorsParade pic.twitter.com/HRoeTZ4val

— Gelek Barleytsang (@GelekB) June 17, 2019

The Raptors ceremony has been interrupted for a serious incident. pic.twitter.com/JIzOuNzvsb

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) June 17, 2019

Stay away from the eaton centre. Please just ran in there, and crowd just ran away. If you’re in the area, get down.

— Bruce Arthur (@bruce_arthur) June 17, 2019

This story is developing and will be updated.