York Regional Police patch is shown Dec, 19, 2022. Authorities are seeking witnesses after a series of shootings outside a cinema north of Toronto.Arlyn McAdorey/The Canadian Press
York Regional Police are seeking witnesses after a series of shootings outside a cinema north of Toronto.
Police say video surveillance from 2:30 a.m. Friday shows a suspect in a dark SUV firing multiple shots toward the entrance of the theatre at East Beaver Creek Road and Highway 7 in Richmond Hill, Ont., before fleeing.
Police say the incident was discovered when a theatre employee arrived for work at around 7 a.m. on Friday and found the windows of several doors shattered.
This is the third shooting to occur at the cinema in just over a month.
Someone in a white, four-door pickup truck with a black cargo bed cover fired shots at the theatre’s entrance on May 17. Two days later, someone in a red SUV with silver rims shot at the same entrance.
A spate of cinema shootings across the Greater Toronto Area earlier this year pushed theatre operator Cineplex Inc. to cancel screenings of South Indian film “Malaikottai Vaaliban.”