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A person wielding a rifle close to an elementary faculty in Toronto was shot and killed by police on Thursday.

Cops responding to a report of an armed man strolling down a Toronto neighborhood road shot the person after he confronted officers, Toronto’s police chief stated. The incident led to the lockdown of 5 close by colleges, based on metropolis officers. The capturing comes days after a gunman stormed an elementary faculty in Texas, killing 21 folks.

“I definitely perceive the trauma and the way traumatic this will need to have been for workers, college students and fogeys, given the latest occasions which have occurred in the US,” Toronto Police Chief James Ramer stated, referring to Tuesday’s lethal capturing at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas.

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Toronto police haven’t launched the id of the person killed by police or any particulars on what his intentions could have been.

“I do not need to speculate and counsel that it is one thing just like what’s taking place in the US,” Ramer stated.

The Toronto Police Operations Twitter account described the armed man as somebody in his late teenagers or early 20s.

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The capturing occurred close to William G. Davis Junior Public Faculty. All colleges within the space of the incident lifted their lockdowns after a few hours, based on the Toronto District Faculty Board.

On Tuesday, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos entered Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, after capturing his grandmother. Inside the college, he shot and killed 19 kids and two academics earlier than a Border Patrol tactical unit was in a position to enter the classroom he barricaded himself in and kill him.

Ramos was not confronted by officers earlier than he entered the college by an unlocked door, based on officers. Mother and father outdoors the elementary faculty reportedly begged law enforcement officials to enter the college and cease the shooter for 40 minutes as they stood outdoors whereas Ramos holed up in one of many lecture rooms.