It was hours before sunrise in late January, when a silver pickup truck pulled up to York Cinemas, a movie theatre in Richmond Hill that specializes in Indian films. Gunfire erupted from the vehicle, blasting through the main entrance, as captured by video surveillance footage from an adjacent building that was released by police. The suspects then fled into the night, as quickly as they arrived.
Later that morning, an employee arriving for work stumbled upon the debris. At three other movie theatres across the Greater Toronto Area, similar drive-by shootings were also reported, with shattered windows and damaged entrances littered with broken glass.
York Regional Police identified this silver 2019 Dodge Ram pickup as a suspect vehicle involved in four GTA cinema drive-by shootings in January.