Toronto police fatally shoot man reportedly seen carrying rifle near schools in Scarborough

Toronto police have shot and killed a man who bystanders said was carrying a rifle while walking around a residential area with several schools in the eastern part of the city.

Police and school officials caution that they have little information about the Toronto man or his motives. “The individual is deceased. The officers are doing as well as can be expected. It’s a difficult thing,” Toronto police Chief James Ramer told reporters at the scene. Because Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit, which automatically probes all police-involved shootings in the province, has been called in, Chief Ramer said he was prohibited from discussing details of the case. The identity of the man has not been released. Chief Ramer also did not respond to questions about what kind of weapon the man was carrying.

Police confronted the gunman on a street around 1:30 p.m. ET and about 150 metres away from William G. Davis school. “This event did not happen on school property,” said Ryan Bird, a Toronto District School Board spokesman. Parent Mary Khaberian was at her small business Thursday afternoon when she got word that her nine-year-old son’s Grade 4 classroom at William G. Davis was locked down. “It was quite scary, I was like, what if this person gets into the school like what happened in Texas?” she told The Globe and Mail.

Mass shootings where schoolchildren are killed inside schools in Canada are exceptionally rare. In 1975, an 18-year-old gunman killed one classmate and wounded five others in an Ottawa high school. In 1999, a 14-year-old high-school student in Taber, Alta., killed one student and wounded two others.

Sure hope it wasn’t a teenager walking to a friends with a pellet gun. But given the detail in this reporting, could have been.

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Are there pics of this man holding a rifle?

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