Jewish-owned bakeries targeted in Toronto attacks

Toronto police are investigating two separate overnight attacks on Jewish-owned Kiva’s bagel bar locations, one of which involved gunfire. Authorities are treating the incidents as potential hate-motivated crimes.
Why it matters
The incident highlights rising concerns regarding safety and hate crimes targeting the Jewish community in urban centers.
Toronto police are investigating after two locations of Jewish-owned Kiva’s bagel bar were targeted in separate incidents Sunday morning, including one where a window was struck by gunfire.
In multiple posts to social media, police say officers were first called to the Yonge Street and St. Clair Avenue West area at around 8 a.m. after reports that a window at a Jewish-owned bakery had been struck by gunfire.
Investigators located evidence of a firearm discharge at the scene. However, no injuries were reported.
Roughly 20 minutes later, officers responded to another location of the “same Jewish owned bakery chain” near Bathurst Street and Steeles Avenue West after receiving reports of a broken window.
At that location, police say investigators found no evidence of gunfire and that no injuries were reported.
“We don’t know when the shooting occurred. Both incidents occurred sometime overnight,” police told CP24 in an email.
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