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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-14T20:23:34.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nUnder grey, rainy skies, a police motorcade brought the body of Toronto Const. Marc Pinizzotto, who was shot dead in the line of duty last week, to a funeral home in Thornhill on Sunday afternoon.\n\nPinizzotto was shot at an apartment building on Martha Eaton Way on Thursday while investigating multiple shootings, including one at the U.S. Consulate in March.\n\nPolice say 19-year-old Nicholas Bennett, who was shot multiple times in the exchange of gunfire, is charged with first-degree murder.\n\nPolice say Zara Jabbi, a 19-year-old suspect wanted in the consulate shooting, is still on the loose and should be considered armed and dangerous.\n\n\"To Const. Marc Pinizzotto, your duty is complete,\" OPP Sgt. Ed Sanchuk said in a livestream of the procession, his voice choked with emotion as windshield wipers waved back and forth.\n\n\"Your watch has ended, and today we escort you home. Rest in peace, Marc. We have it from here.\"\n\nPinizzotto acted with unwavering courage and conviction, Sanchuk said.\n\n\"Each day he wore the uniform, he did so with a deep sense of responsibility, placing the needs of the citizens above his own and without hesitation.\"\n\nHe added the OPP understands Toronto officers' grief \"all too well.\"\n\nSanchuk said the Toronto force was among the first to show its support, sending condolences and lining the streets to salute, when two members of the OPP were recently killed in the line of duty, their bodies brought to the same coroner's office.\n\nOPP Sgt. Brandon Malcolm, who served on the precision motorcycle team, died in a single-vehicle crash on April 27. He was 33.\n\nOPP Const. Tarun Bali, 29, was struck by the driver of a vehicle on Tuesday in the northern town of Hearst, about 520 kilometres east of Thunder Bay, as fellow investigators searched for a man who had escaped from a hospital.\n\nJustin Veronneau, an 18-year-old man from Hearst, now faces charges including first-degree murder, assaulting police and dangerous operation of a vehicle.\n\nTributes from Prime Minister Mark Carney, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Mayor Olivia Chow and others have poured in for the 43-year-old fallen officer.\n\nThis report by The Canadian Press was first published June 14, 2026.\n\n_By Elissa Mendes | Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved._",
  "title": "'We have it from here': Police salute fallen Toronto officer at procession"
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