The province’s police watchdog has invoked its mandate after a 19-year-old man was found dead following reports of gunshots and an armed individual at the University of Toronto’s Mississauga campus on Monday night, authorities said.
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The university says the overnight incident has “been resolved” and there is no threat to public safety.
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Shortly after 9 p.m., Peel police responded to reports of an armed individual inside the McLuhan Court Residence at Dundas Street West and Mississauga Road.
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After officers arrived on scene, the suspect fired a gun from within a unit, police said in a statement Tuesday morning.
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Officers then moved to evacuate the building and the surrounding area.
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UPDATE
— Peel Regional Police (@PeelPolice) November 3, 2026
Peel Regional Police have expanded specialized services on site
Incident isolated and contained to a single residential unit
No injuries reported
Immediate area has been evacuated
Residents being asked to shelter in place
Avoid area
Police say they attempted to communicate with the suspect but were unsuccessful.
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Officers entered the unit and found the suspect dead from what appeared to be a “self-inflicted” gunshot wound, both police and the Special Investigations Unit said.
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No other injuries were reported.
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The SIU confirmed Tuesday that the 19-year-old man was not a student at the university.
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Investigation began in Brampton
On Tuesday morning, investigators remained at the student residence, a four-bedroom townhouse style complex that housed about 140 first-year students at the university.
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The SIU says the investigation began earlier on Monday afternoon in Brampton following reports of a man assaulting a woman.
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Police attempted to arrest him, but he fled.
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Around 9 p.m. he was located at the University of Toronto’s Mississauga campus, according to the SIU.
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The university had issued a shelter-in-place order around 9:30 p.m. after receiving reports of police activity at McLuhan Court residence, located at 3330 Residence Road.
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In a social media post just after 2 a.m. on Tuesday, Peel police said the incident had been “resolved.”
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It added that there was no threat to public safety but that police would remain on the scene overnight.
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A note on the university’s website said that the shelter-in-place had been lifted and that the situation was “no longer active.”
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Classes at the Mississauga campus were cancelled on Tuesday, the university said in a post on social media, though the campus will remain open.
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The SIU has the mandate to review incidents involving police officers during which members of the public are seriously injured or killed.
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Students recount scenes on campus
Phoebe Pate, an international student from Texas who lives in an undergrad residence just a few doors down, says she saw around a dozen officers in tactical gear respond to the campus around 10:30 p.m.
“A SWAT vehicle pulled up and officers got in formation and starting pulling out drones,” said Pate.
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Pate says she heard loud bangs — that she thought might be gunshots — a few moments later.
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“It sounded like clips or thuds,” she said.
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“I didn’t get a good view because I didn’t want to stick my head up.”
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Pate and her peers were evacuated within the hour and held in a residence across campus until around 2 a.m., she says.
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“It’s a tragedy, and it’s just a shame it ended like this.”
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Diana Varzideh, a second-year psychology student at University of Toronto Mississauga, said she was studying with a friend Monday evening when they noticed police vehicles near the campus bus stop.
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“We thought it was just like a residence fire or something like that, or like a drill,” Varzideh said.
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But when buses stopped arriving, she said a driver told them no one was being allowed in or out of the area.
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She received her first shelter-in-place alert from the university at 9:37 p.m.
Varzideh and her friend sought shelter in the basement of a campus building, away from the police activity.
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At around 11:52 p.m., a janitor opened a nearby lecture hall for them.
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“He opened the nearest lecture hall for us and then made sure it was locked from the inside,” she said, adding that the basement had no windows.
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The pair remained there until receiving a notification at 12:57 a.m. that the lockdown had been partially lifted.
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“We weren’t super sure what that meant,” Varzideh said.
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She and her friend eventually left through a fire exit and followed directions from campus security and police before being picked up.
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Varzideh said she did not hear gunshots while sheltering in the basement
This story is developing.
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