Eight Days Apart, the Same Address, and Both Times the Building Was Closed and Empty: Peel Police Confirm a Second Shooting at the Sapphire Lounge on Queen Street South in Streetsville, and Have Issued No Release on Either One (September 13, 2026)

MISSISSAUGA — Somebody fired on a restaurant at 168 Queen Street South in Streetsville at about four in the morning on Sunday, and it was the second time in eight days that the same address had been shot at. Peel Regional Police confirmed both to reporters. The force has written up neither. There is no news release, no occurrence number and no suspect description in the public record for either the September 7 shooting or the September 13 shooting, and what is known comes from two emailed statements to two outlets. The one physical detail police have released is that multiple shell casings were recovered from the scene on Sunday.

Both times the building was shut. “There were no reported injuries as the business was closed at the time and no one was inside,” Constable Laurie McCann wrote to CP24 of the Sunday shooting. No injuries were reported on September 7 either. Whoever fired chose an hour when the premises were empty, twice, and that is a fact about the timing rather than a conclusion about the motive, which nobody has stated.

The Same Door, Twice, Inside Eight Days

A single shooting at a closed restaurant is an incident. A second one at the identical address inside eight days is a pattern in the plainest sense of the word, and Peel Regional Police confirmed the repetition rather than leaving it to be inferred: a spokesperson told INsauga there had been a similar incident at the same location approximately one week earlier. That confirmation is the most significant thing either outlet obtained, because it converts two thinly reported calls into one sequence.

What the force has not said is whether the two files sit with the same investigators, whether they are being treated as connected, or whether any of the usual language — targeted, isolated, no risk to the public — applies. None of those phrases appears anywhere in the reporting. The absence is worth recording accurately: police have not said the shootings are linked, and they have not said they are unlinked.

Shell Casings and a Closed Building

Multiple casings on the ground means rounds were fired and the scene produced physical evidence, which is more than the September 7 file has ever publicly yielded. Beyond that the description stops. Nobody has said how many casings, what calibre, whether the building was struck, whether the windows or the door took the rounds, whether anything inside was hit, or whether the shots came from a vehicle or from the sidewalk. There is no damage estimate and no photograph of the frontage in either account.

The Sapphire Lounge is described on its own website as serving North Indian cuisine and cocktails. That is a fact about the business, published by the business, and it is included here because it is part of the identification of the address. Nothing follows from it in this briefing: no motive is asserted, and no category of offence is attached to the premises on the strength of its menu.

Two Emails and No Release

The entire documentary basis for this file is two statements from Peel Regional Police media relations to two outlets — Constable Laurie McCann to CP24, and an unnamed spokesperson to INsauga — plus the confirmation that a September 7 incident occurred. The force’s own newsroom carries nothing on either shooting. Its most recent postings at the time of writing concern a fraudulent auto insurance investigation, a Square One robbery series and a Brampton carjacking arrest.

That is not unusual for a shooting with no victim, no arrest and no suspect to publicize, and it is not offered as a criticism. It does mean that on this file the outlets are the primary source, and that the first document capable of carrying an occurrence number has not been written. A later run of this briefing should fold in a Peel release if one appears.

What Nobody Has Said

No suspect of any description, no number of people involved, no vehicle, no direction of flight. No shot count, no calibre, no statement that a firearm has been recovered. No occurrence number for either date. No investigative unit — no divisional criminal investigation bureau, no Central Robbery Bureau, no specialized bureau of any kind is named in either account. No stated motive. No statement on whether the business, its owner or anyone associated with it had received threats or demands. No statement on whether either shooting is considered targeted. No arrest, and no charge.

And no gang, street gang, criminal organization or outlaw motorcycle club has been named by Peel Regional Police, by CP24, by INsauga or by anyone else in connection with either shooting. None is named or implied here, and no organization profile on this site is linked, because police have not put one in this file.