Canada probes whether Toronto police death tied to global attacks

Authorities are investigating whether the killing of a Toronto police officer while executing search warrants connected to a shooting at the city’s US consulate is linked to a wider series of global attacks. Constable Marc Pinizzotto, 43, a member of the emergency taskforce, was killed on Thursday during a dawn search of an apartment building in the west of the city.

Toronto police chief Myron Demkiw said the search “concerned a number of shootings” including one targeting the US consulate in March; no one was injured and the suspected shooters fled in a white vehicle. Investigators are exploring whether the perpetrators were part of a broader, city-wide network of “shooters for hire” that has targeted buildings owned by a large waste management company and private homes.

In recent years Toronto and surrounding communities have been rocked by escalating attacks on tow truck companies, including high-profile murders and allegations of police corruption, and investigators suspect links between those incidents and the current case.

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