Overview

• Officers responded just before 1 a.m. Monday to reports of gunfire at a North York bar on Victoria Park and Sparks avenues.
• Police found a man in his 20s with serious injuries and paramedics transported him to hospital where he is now in stable condition.
• Investigators describe the suspect as a slim East Asian male, about five-foot-four, aged 20–30, wearing dark clothing, who fled before officers arrived.
• Authorities have launched an early-stage investigation and are canvassing the area while urging anyone with information to come forward.
• The shooting continues a pattern of violence in Toronto’s nightlife precincts that has challenged police efforts to identify perpetrators.