A Toronto Police Service officer was shot and killed Thursday morning while executing a search warrant in relation to a US consulate shooting that has been tied to an Iranian proxy group.
Police Constable Marc Pinizzotto was shot during the operation, and despite the efforts of medical services, the Emergency Task Force officer died at Sunnybrook Hospital.
One suspect related to the death of the 18-year TPS veteran was in the hospital, but an outstanding suspect, 19-year-old Zara Jabbi, was still on the run. Police Chief Myron Demkiw said in a press briefing that Jabbi should be considered armed and dangerous, but wouldn’t detail whether Jabbi was the person who fatally shot 43-year-old Pinizzotto.
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TPS remained taciturn regarding the warrant, but Demkiw said that they were investigating a number of shootings, including one against the US consulate. TPS confirmed that this was the March 10 shooting. The warrant in which Pinizzotto fell in the line of duty was one of several warrants executed that morning.
The Toronto Sun reported that the other shootings being investigated as part of the raids were against Greater Toronto Area Synagogues. TPS would not confirm to The Jerusalem Post that synagogue shootings were tied to the warrants.
Iran linked to Toronto synagogue, US consulate shootings
According to allegations made in the criminal complaint against Kataib Hezbollah senior official Mohammad Bagher Saad Dawood al-Saadi, the Iranian proxy commander had orchestrated the March 10 Consulate shooting and an attack on a synagogue in Toronto.
In the complaint, Saadi, working on behalf of the Islamic Regime proxy, told an undercover law enforcement officer that his “people” were behind the two attacks in Canada
No injuries were caused by the early morning US consulate shooting, the Toronto Police Service said at the time, but damage was caused to the building.
March saw three different shooting attacks on Toronto-area synagogues. On March 2, after Purim celebrations ended, there was a shooting at the Temple Emanu-El synagogue, leaving multiple bullet holes in the synagogue’s front windows.
On March 6, shots were fired at the Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto (the BAYT), and on March 7 at the Shaarei Shomayim synagogue.
An 18-year-old man was charged with the latter two incidents on May 6, according to the Toronto Police Service and York Regional Police. On May 29, a 17-year-old Waterloo teenager was arrested for his role in the attacks.
A procession escorting Pinizotto from the hospital was set for Thursday.
This is a developing story.
