Overview
- Police arrested Mohamed Mahdi on Sunday after Friday's pre-dawn shooting at the Old Avenue Restaurant in North York.
- Plainclothes officers using covert deployments tracked a fleeing SUV and recorded its licence plate, which police say led to the suspect.
- He faces multiple firearms charges, and no one was hurt, though police say the owner is shaken by the attack.
- The hate-crimes unit is embedded in the case as investigators review motive and possible links to other recent shootings targeting Jewish sites.
- Toronto's new counterterrorism unit assisted the probe, and police say they are consulting RCMP national-security investigators with no terrorism charges laid.