Overview
- A veteran Emergency Task Force officer, Const. Marc Pinizzotto, was shot during a high-risk search warrant and later died at Sunnybrook Hospital after Thursday’s raid in North York.
- Officers say the entry led to an exchange of gunfire inside a fourth-floor apartment in which a suspect was shot by police and taken to hospital.
- Toronto police say 19-year-old Nicholas Bennett, who remains hospitalized, will be charged with first-degree murder in connection with the officer’s death.
- A second 19-year-old suspect, Zara Jabbi, is publicly identified as wanted, is considered armed and dangerous, and police are actively searching for him.
- Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit has invoked its mandate to probe the police-involved shooting as investigators continue a broader inquiry tied to the March attack on the U.S. Consulate and reported U.S. prosecutor leads linking that consulate shooting to an alleged international network.