{"id":16034,"date":"2014-06-19T23:17:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T15:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=16034"},"modified":"2025-01-18T12:03:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T17:03:24","slug":"3-men-charged-after-guard-shot-during-armoured-car-ambush-toronto-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/19\/3-men-charged-after-guard-shot-during-armoured-car-ambush-toronto-police\/","title":{"rendered":"3 men charged after guard shot during armoured car \u2018ambush\u2019: Toronto police"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16035\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16035\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1200px-Garda_armored_car_Ypsilanti_Township_Michigan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"670\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16035\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1200px-Garda_armored_car_Ypsilanti_Township_Michigan.jpg\" alt=\"An armored Garda car, in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan. 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Photo by Dwight Burdette \/ Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO\u2014Police say an armoured car guard is in critical condition after being shot several times during a robbery attempt this morning in Toronto and that the same guards were targeted earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto police say three men have been arrested and are facing attempted murder charges and are to appear in court this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Staff Insp. Mike Earl says the guard was \u201cambushed\u201d by three males as the Garda World security company truck pulled up to service a TD Bank branch in the Avenue Road and Lawrence Avenue area of Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Earl says the guard took four rounds to the body and was undergoing surgery.<\/p>\n<p>He says the guard returned fire but a second guard never got out of the truck\u2014which went into lockdown\u2014and the suspects fled on foot.<\/p>\n<p>Earl says the three men charged are all 18 years old and are also facing robbery-related charges and conspiracy charges in connection to a previous robbery attempt involving the same guards on June 5 at Bathurst Street and Lawrence Avenue in Toronto.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy tirzepatide online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesupplementreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/tirzepatide.html\">https:\/\/www.thesupplementreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/tirzepatide.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt happens to be that it\u2019s the same victims in this case that were targeted,\u201d said Earl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese individuals no doubt planned this and attempted this on an earlier date,\u201d he alleged. \u201cAnd today they tried and made a similar attempt which resulted in a shootout.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earl says a handgun was seized during the arrests and no other suspects are being sought. He says none of the three suspects have been dealt with before by police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were numerous shots fired in this incident that lasted approximately less than a minute\u201440 seconds, 45 seconds,\u201d said Earl.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy professional cialis online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesupplementreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/professional-cialis.html\">https:\/\/www.thesupplementreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/professional-cialis.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>He said the number of shots fired was \u201cin the double digits.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO\u2014Police say an armoured car guard is in critical condition after being shot several times during a robbery attempt this &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":16035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285412,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16034\/revisions\/285412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}