A “brazen” mass shooting at the opening night of a Toronto, Canada, pub left 12 people wounded when three gunmen walked into the bar and “opened fire indiscriminately,” according to Toronto police.
Police Superintendent Paul MacIntyre called the incident a “brazen and reckless act of violence” and described the chilling scene.
“When you walk in, it’s kind of eerie. The drinks are still on the table. The food is still on the table. People’s purses, shoes are still in there,” MacIntyre said in a briefing. “It’s a pub with nobody inside. It’s eerie…There’s a lot of damage on the walls…There’s blood all over the floor.” He said people were lying on the floor and sitting in booths when officers arrived. Other people ran to the basement, MacIntyre said.
The three masked gunmen carried an assault rifle and handguns, according to MacIntyre. The motive is not clear, and the suspects are at large, MacIntyre said in the videotaped police briefing.
“They walked through the bar and they produced their guns, and they opened fire indiscriminately on the people sitting inside,” MacIntyre said.
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“It was a lot of popping, probably 20 plus. It was just like ‘pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.’ It just wouldn’t stop,” a witness told The Toronto Star. “I hit the deck.”
Six of the injured people suffered gunshot wounds, although no one died, police wrote in a statement. The victims range in age from 20s to mid-40s, and there are three male shooting suspects, Toronto police say. The other injured people suffered injuries from broken glass, he said.
“We’ve seen a lot of shootings over the years, a lot of video, you get inured to it to a certain extent, but tonight’s shooting, these guys just looked at the crowd and opened fire,” MacIntyre said. “It was horrible.” He said police are “leaving no stone unturned.”
“TPS deploying all available resources to locate & arrest those responsible,” police wrote. The mass shooting occurred at Progress Avenue and Corporate Drive at 10:39 p.m. on March 7.
“Three masked gunman” entered the pub and “cowardly and indiscriminately fired on celebrants at the opening of Piper Arms on Progress Avenue,” Councillor Michael Thompson wrote in a statement. “Police will spare no efforts to apprehend the callous people who inflict such horror on regular residents doing regular things in our community.”