Toronto police officer shot dead while investigating US consulate attack

A Toronto police officer has been shot dead as police raided an apartment allegedly linked to the March attack on the US consulate, the city’s police chief, Myron Demkiw, said.

Demkiw said 43-year-old constable Marc Pinizzotto was shot while conducting an early-morning search warrant in the north-west of the city and later died at a hospital.

The warrant “concerned a number of shootings, including the shooting at the United States consulate”, Demkiw said.

A 19-year-old suspect remained at large, Demkiw said.

Toronto police said in March that two men fired multiple rounds at the empty US diplomatic building before sunrise.

No one was hurt in the incident that Pete Hoekstra, the US ambassador to Canada, called “deeply troubling”.

Canada’s federal police have said the investigation into the consulate shooting would determine whether it amounted to a “terrorist” event.