A man with a rifle near a Toronto school was killed by police. The man, according to the police Twitter account, was about 20 years old, wearing a white cap and a long coat. Two days after the massacre in the Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, the presence of a gunman created panic and all the schools in the area were placed in lockdown until the police intervention, the chief of the forces said. order of the city, James Ramer.
“The police were confronted by this individual,” Ramer explained during a press conference. According to a police tweet, the suspect, around 20, was wearing a white cap and long cloak. The officers had been warned of the presence of a person carrying a rifle on the street. About 20 minutes later, paramedics were called in for a shooting. Ramer called what happened “traumatic” for all involved, “given the recent events that took place in the United States.” “At the moment we don’t know what was going to happen or what could have happened. So I don’t want to speculate and suggest that it is something similar to what happened in the United States,” he said again.