Toronto constabulary said they were investigating the latest onslaught with the assistance of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and planetary instrumentality enforcement partners.
Supt Jonathan Ko with the RCMP called it "another troubling incident", portion the city's mayor, Olivia Chow, called the onslaught "brazen".
The shooting occurred astir 04:45 section clip (09:45BST). Officers said they recovered 1 ammunition casing astatine the country and harm to the building's facade.
At slightest 2 individuals were wrong the consulate astatine the time, Toronto Police Deputy Chief Frank Barredo said, but helium noted the gathering is "very heavy fortified" and those wrong apt did not perceive the weapon shot.
He added that the probe remains ongoing and that constabulary crossed the metropolis person been asked to lookout for the imaginable suspects.
"We volition bring the radical liable to justice," Barredo said.
In a station connected X, the US Consulate successful Toronto thanked the constabulary for their response.
Police person been stationed extracurricular the US consulate since March, erstwhile shots were fired extracurricular the gathering successful what constabulary astatine the clip called a "national information incident". No 1 was injured successful that attack.
In June, constabulary carried retired raids successful narration to the shooting. One constabulary officer, 43-year-old Const Marc Pinizzotto, was killed during the operation.
Police aboriginal arrested respective suspects aged 18 and 19 for allegedly carrying retired a drawstring of shootings, including the March onslaught extracurricular the consulate, arsenic portion of a larger gun-for-hire network.
Two Jewish-owned bakeries successful the metropolis were besides targeted, astatine slightest 1 by gunfire, implicit the weekend, though constabulary said connected Monday determination was presently thing to nexus the 2 incidents but they did not regularisation retired a connection.
In May, US officials arrested an Iraqi national, 32-year-old Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, for allegedly readying much than a twelve attacks successful North America and Europe targeting Jewish institutions and US interests, including the 1 astatine the US consulate successful Toronto.
Police successful Toronto person not said if al-Saadi is linked to their investigation, and they person not specified a motive for this latest consulate shooting.
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