Overview
- Toronto and York police arrested an 18-year-old Wednesday in the March shootings at two synagogues in Vaughan and Toronto.
- The suspect faces nine charges, including discharging a firearm into a building and mischief over $5,000, and cannot be named because he was 17 at the time.
- The attacks hit Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto before midnight March 6 and Shaarei Shomayim about 20 minutes later, and no injuries were reported.
- Investigators say he may not have acted alone and are seeking accomplices, with surveillance video pointing to a black older Honda Civic.
- Jewish groups and local officials condemned the violence, noting other recent attacks on Jewish sites in the area have shaken congregants’ sense of safety.