Shot fired outside US Consulate in Toronto for second time this year

Consulate in downtown Toronto early on Monday but there were no injuries, police said, in what was the second such incident in the last four months.

Police officers, alerted by ​the sound of a gunshot, said they found evidence of a weapon having been fired outside the ​building on University Avenue.

In June police said, without providing any more details, that young people in the Toronto area were being paid to shoot at various targets, including synagogues, Jewish schools and the U.