Three of the Four Were Masked and Two of the Four Were Already Prohibited From Touching a Gun: Toronto Police Take Two Loaded Prohibited Firearms Out of a Parked Car at Dufferin and Steeles and Publish the Charge Sheet Five Days After the Bail Hearing (September 11, 2026)

TORONTO — Four people were sitting in a car in a parking lot near Dufferin Street and Steeles Avenue West on Sunday, September 6, 2026, and three of them were wearing masks. Someone had called Toronto Police to report a person with a gun. Responding 32 Division officers found the vehicle, arrested two of the occupants where they sat, and chased down the other two on foot. Two loaded prohibited firearms came out of the car.

The Toronto Police Service published the file on Friday, September 11, 2026 at 11:54 a.m. under case number 2026-1875019 — five days after the incident, and four days after every one of the accused had already been through a bail hearing. The release does not say what happened at that hearing.

Doubled Counts for Two Guns, and One Man Carrying Both

The charge sheets have a readable internal logic. Three of the four face a single set of firearm counts. Osadebamwen faces most of the same counts twice over — two counts of occupying a motor vehicle with a firearm, two of possessing a loaded regulated firearm, two of possessing a restricted or prohibited firearm without licence and registration, four of possessing a prohibited weapon or device.

There were two firearms in the car. Doubling the counts against one accused and not against the others is how a charge sheet expresses the allegation that a single person is answerable for both of them, while the remaining three are each answerable for one. Toronto Police do not say this, and the release offers no explanation of how the two guns were distributed among the four. It is what the arithmetic of the counts indicates, not what the force has stated.

The word “loaded” is doing significant work in every one of the four charge sheets. A loaded prohibited firearm in a vehicle is the precise fact pattern that takes a possession file out of the paperwork category, and both guns in this car were described that way.

Two Men Already Barred From Holding a Gun, and a Third on a Release Order

Osadebamwen is charged with two counts of possessing a firearm while prohibited. Asamoh and Church each face one. That count only exists where the accused is already under a court order barring them from possessing firearms, which means three of the four adults in this car were, on the allegation, carrying guns they had already been told by a court they could not have.

Church adds two counts of failing to comply with a release order on top of that — a separate order, from a separate proceeding, allegedly breached the same night. Neither the underlying prohibitions nor the underlying release order is described anywhere in the release. What they were imposed for, when, and by which court is not published, and the force does not say whether any of the four was known to it beforehand.

The 17-year-old is the outlier. His charge sheet is the standard single-firearm set with no prohibition count attached, which is consistent with a young person who was not previously before a court on a firearms matter. That is an inference from the absence of a count, not a statement by police.

A Call for Service, Not an Investigation

This file did not come from a warrant, a project or a specialized unit. It came from someone dialling to report a person with a gun, and from uniformed 32 Division officers arriving and finding the car. No Guns and Gangs unit is named. No provincial or federal partner is named. No project or operation name is given, and the release is issued by Corporate Communications for 32 Division with no officer named anywhere in it.

Nothing about how the four came to be sitting masked in a parked car with two loaded guns is explained. There was no shooting; the release describes no victim, no shots fired and no injuries. What the four were allegedly doing or about to do is not stated, and no such allegation is made here.

What Is Not Reported

No exact address — only the Dufferin Street and Steeles Avenue West area and an unidentified parking lot, with no plaza or building named. No time of day for the September 6 call. No arrest time, and no explicit statement that the arrests happened the same day, though the September 7 bail appearances imply it. No make, model, calibre or magazine capacity for either firearm, and no ammunition count. No description of the vehicle, and no statement of whether it was stolen. No home city for the 17-year-old. No bail outcome from the September 7 hearings, despite the release appearing four days later. No indication whether the four were known to each other or to police beforehand, and no explanation of the prior prohibitions or the release order Church is alleged to have breached. No mention of drugs, cash or any other seizure.

Critically, the Toronto Police Service names no gang, no street group, no criminal organization and no motorcycle club in this file, and none is named here. Four people in a car with two loaded guns is not, on its own, evidence of anything organized, and the force asserts nothing of the kind. The file qualifies on the facts of the offence — loaded prohibited firearms recovered from accused already under firearms prohibitions — and on nothing else.

All four accused are presumed innocent. The 17-year-old cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Nothing described above has been tested in court.