Three people taken to hospital after triple shooting in downtown Toronto
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Toronto Police are on the scene of shooting that has sent three people to the hospital in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Three people are in hospital, one of them in critical condition, following an early-morning shooting at an establishment in Toronto’s Entertainment District.
Police say shots were fired at approximately 5:19 a.m., in an afterhours bar near Spadina Avenue and Sullivan Street.
Three males with gunshot wounds were located by police and transported to the hospital.
One of the victims has life-threatening injuries, police say.
Officers arrested one person at the scene and two firearms were allegedly recovered, police said.
Acting Duty Insp. Phillip Sinclair told CP24 that the suspect allegedly entered the bar with two firearms and got into an altercation with the bar's employees.
During the altercation, the suspect allegedly produced a firearm and shot two employees, and sustained a gunshot wound himself, police said.