Somebody Shot Out the Windows of a Business at Twenty-Four Minutes Past Two in the Morning, and It Is the Second Scarborough Commercial Property Hit by Gunfire in Three Days: Toronto Police Have Evidence of Gunfire at Steeles and Markham Road, No Suspect Information At All, and No Release (September 30, 2026)

Shots were fired at a business in a Scarborough commercial plaza at around 2:24 a.m. on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, in the area of Steeles Avenue East and Markham Road. Officers found evidence of gunfire at the plaza and the windows of a business were damaged. Nobody was hurt. Police have released no information on possible suspects — not a number, not a description, not a vehicle, not a direction of travel. It is the second time in three days that gunfire has damaged a commercial property in Scarborough, and the Toronto Police Service has issued no news release on either one.

The whole of the published account

Five sentences is the entire public record of this shooting. Police were called to the area of Steeles Avenue East and Markham Road, at the northern edge of Scarborough on the boundary with Markham, at approximately 2:24 a.m. Evidence of gunfire was located at a commercial plaza in the area. Damage was done to the windows of a business at the plaza. No injuries were reported. Police have not released any information on possible suspects.

What is not in it runs longer than what is. The business is not named and no civic address is published, so which of the several plazas near that intersection was hit cannot be established from the record. The number of shots is unpublished. So is the number of casings recovered, or whether any were. Whether the business was open, whether anyone was inside, and who owns the premises or the damaged windows are all absent. No division is attributed, no investigative unit is named, no officer is named, and there is no quotation attributed to police anywhere in the account. There is no case or occurrence number, which means the file cannot be tracked forward by a reader.

Two things police routinely say on a Toronto shooting are also missing here. They have not said whether the shooting was targeted. And they have not said whether there is any threat to anyone else in the area.

The second commercial property in three days

Three days earlier, at approximately 4 a.m. on Sunday, September 27, 2026, gunfire damaged a parked vehicle at a commercial property at Warden Avenue and Lawrence Avenue East, also in Scarborough. That file too produced evidence of gunfire, no injuries, no arrest, no case number and no Toronto Police Service news release; the only suspect information released was that the suspects may have fled in a light-coloured vehicle.

The two incidents are roughly ten to twelve kilometres apart and share a shape: an overnight hour, a commercial property, property damage rather than injury, and a force that has published nothing in writing about either. That is the extent of what can be said. Police have not connected the two files, have not said they are investigating them together, and have not characterised either as targeted. No connection between them is asserted here, and the shape they share is not evidence of one.

Nothing in writing from the force

The Toronto Police Service news-release index was checked on September 30 and carried nothing dated September 30, 2026 at all. Its newest items were four releases dated September 29: a missing person at University Avenue and Gerrard Street West under case 2026-2048677 at 11:49 a.m., the Project Playfight results at 10:43 a.m., a missing person at Queen Street West and Ossington Avenue under case 2026-2046393 at 8:58 a.m., and a missing person at Woodfield Road and Gerrard Street East under case 2046780 at 7:53 a.m. None concerns this shooting.

So more than ten hours passed between the gunfire and the filing of this briefing without the force publishing a word about it. Everything known comes from one broadcast report of what police told a reporter.

Toronto sits inside the primary footprint of this beat, where a shooting is on the beat regardless of any stated organized-crime connection. None is stated on this file and none is implied here. No criminal organization, street gang or outlaw motorcycle club has been named by the Toronto Police Service or by any outlet in connection with this shooting. The comparison with the September 27 file at Warden and Lawrence is drawn from the published record of both and is not a police statement: the force has not connected the two incidents, and nothing here should be read as saying it has. Police have not described this shooting as targeted. Nobody has been arrested and no person has been charged in connection with this file.