Toronto police say gun-for-hire networks are linked to shootings at the US Consulate and synagogues, signaling cross-border organized crime connected to the attacks.
Toronto police say a multilayered gun-for-hire network recruited young adults via encrypted apps to carry out a wave of shootings across the Greater Toronto Area, including a March attack on the US consulate; two handguns seized could be connected to 27 shootings; 18-year-olds Jayon Burgher and Sheldon Tracey-Stewart have been charged, 19-year-old Nicholas Bennett faces first-degree murder charges, and 19-year-old Zara Jabbi remains at large; investigators are seeking organizers and financiers with FBI assistance as they assess possible links to a broader terror network and a fatal raid on police operations.