The shooting at Nathan Phillips Square had people scrambling for safety at the rally celebrating the Raptors’ NBA title and it dominated the international media’s coverage of the parade celebrating Toronto’s first major championship in more than 25 years.
A look at what the media said:
A parade celebrating the Toronto Raptors’ N.B.A. championship transformed the team’s hometown into a party venue on Monday before it was briefly swept into panic and confusion by a shooting that left four people wounded and two people taken into police custody.
The incident went initially unnoticed by the crowd squeezed into Nathan Phillips Square, the plaza in front of Toronto’s modernist City Hall, about the time Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and other dignitaries were congratulating the team on its title, the first for an NBA team based outside of the United States.