6 dead, including shooting suspect, in Vaughan condo massacre: Cops

Torontosun.com, Ottawasun.com
Dec. 19, 2022
Joe Warmington

Six people are dead, including the gunman, in a heinous ambush shooting massacre in a condo building in Vaughan.

Sources told the Toronto Sun police are investigating multiple shooting scenes at a condo building and are working on a theory that an individual went from unit to unit, attacking six members of the condo board. One of the victims was hospitalized and is expected to survive.

“Once the officers arrived they were met with a horrendous scene,” Chief Jim MacSween said. “Numerous victims were deceased.”

He said officers eventually found the gunman.

“There was an engagement between the officers and a subject. … After the engagement, the subject was deceased as well,” he said, providing no other details as to what took place.

Police sources say the shooter is a man in his 70s who was in an ongoing legal battle with the condo board of the building at 9235 Jane St.

Investigators are in the process of trying to talk to his family or acquaintances to learn more on the background of this dispute and any possible court orders that resulted from it.

Police were also mining through social media posts they believe show the in-distress killer expressing fear of being accosted by board members.

MacSween told media police were heavily focused on identifying the victims in the horrific scene and notifying next of kin.

The SIU has also been called in.

At least one of the people killed in the condo building is said to have been shot in the head.

“It’s nasty,” said one source.

This was one of two shootings Sunday in York Region, followed by one Saturday where a man was shot in Richmond Hill after an altercation with three men with guns. But the other shootings are not believed to be related to the condo shooting.