Fourteen Counts and a Tourniquet: Peterborough Man, 27, Charged With Attempted Murder After Toronto Officer Shot in E-Bike Robbery Chase (August 14, 2026)

TORONTO — The charge sheet landed Friday, and it runs to fourteen counts. A 27-year-old Peterborough man stands accused of attempting to murder a Toronto police constable, of discharging a firearm to prevent his own arrest, and of trying to tear a conducted energy weapon out of an officer’s hands during the struggle that followed a stolen e-bike through the streets of St. James Town.

The count that says the most about the file is buried in the middle of the list. The accused is charged with possessing a firearm or ammunition contrary to a prohibition order, and with two counts of failing to comply with a release order. Both of those charges are only possible against a person a court had already told, in writing, to stay away from guns and to abide by conditions. That is the shape of the case: not a stranger who came out of nowhere, but a man the justice system had already processed and released.

The Robbery That Started It

The sequence began at approximately 3:21 a.m. on Thursday, August 13, when police were called to a robbery near Shuter Street and Sherbourne Street. Investigators allege the victim was riding his e-bike when two men, themselves riding an e-bike, came up on him. They allege the pair pushed him off his machine and assaulted him, and that one of the two was carrying a knife.

One suspect then rode away on the victim’s e-bike. The other left in a direction police have not specified and has not been located.

Officers found the man on the stolen bike. Police allege he refused to stop and kept riding north, covering the roughly one kilometre from Shuter up to Bloor Street East and Sherbourne Street before abandoning the bike and running. The officers went after him on foot.

The Struggle at Bloor and Sherbourne

What police allege happened next took seconds. As officers moved to place the man under arrest, he resisted. He produced a firearm and fired it. The round struck an officer in the leg.

The resistance did not stop with the shot. Police allege that after firing, the man kept fighting and reached for one of the officers’ conducted energy weapons — the conduct underlying the fourteenth count on the sheet, disarming a peace officer. He was taken into custody at the scene and the firearm was seized.

Officers then went to work on their colleague. They applied a tourniquet to his leg and held it there until paramedics arrived. He was carried to hospital with injuries police describe as serious but not life-threatening.

What a Prohibition Order Is Worth

A firearms prohibition order is a court’s formal judgment that a specific person should never again be near a gun. It is one of the plainest instruments in Canadian criminal law and it depends entirely on compliance, because nothing about the order physically prevents anyone from acquiring a weapon.

The allegation on this file is that the order was worth nothing at all. Police say the man arrested at Bloor and Sherbourne was carrying a loaded prohibited or restricted firearm, concealed, without a licence, while bound by a prohibition order and while subject to release conditions he is alleged to have breached twice. Every one of those is a separate count, and together they describe a paper wall that a person walked straight through.

None of it has been tested. The accused has not entered a plea and the allegations have not been proven in court.

The Man Who Rode Away

The second suspect from the original robbery is the loose thread. Police have said only that he left the Shuter and Sherbourne area in an unknown direction. As of Friday there was no description available for him — no age, no height, no clothing, nothing that would let a member of the public recognise him.

That absence is itself informative. A robbery victim who was assaulted at close quarters by two men would ordinarily be able to offer something. Either the description exists and is being held back, or the encounter was too fast and too dark to produce one. Investigators have not said which.

Where the File Stands

The accused is scheduled to appear in court. Toronto Police are asking anyone with information to contact investigators at 416-808-5100, or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477) or through 222tips.com.

Several outlets circulating on Friday attached a name to the 27-year-old accused. Gangland Files was unable to open a source document confirming that identification and has therefore left the accused unnamed in this briefing. The wounded constable has likewise not been publicly identified by the Toronto Police Service, nor has the division he serves with been stated in the material reviewed here. Gangland Files will file a follow-up once the accused is named in an accessible court or police record.