CP NewsAlert: Toronto police say multiple shootings linked to guns-for-hire networks

TORONTO — Toronto police Chief Myron Demkiw says investigators have linked multiple shootings, including one at the U.S. Consulate in March, to “multi-layered” gun-for-hire networks that have also targeted synagogues in the city.

Police say young adults are being recruited and paid by the networks to carry out the shootings, which have involved some recently seized firearms.

A veteran Toronto police officer was killed last week during a raid linked to several shooting investigations.

Const. Marc Pinizzotto, 43, was shot on Thursday while officers were carrying out a search at an apartment building in the city’s northwest and died in hospital.