Police officer shot at Brampton courthouse

A police officer has been wounded after a shooter opened fire in the Brampton courthouse.
The shooter has also been shot, the Star has confirmed.
Peel EMS confirmed they are transferring one patient to hospital from the courthouse.
Two lawyers say they have been locked down inside the sprawling, multi-floor courthouse.
It’s not clear where the shooting took place inside the courthouse.
Lawyer Corey Nishio told the Star Friday morning he was locked in a courtroom on the second floor of the courthouse.
He said he didn’t hear any shots fired, but said people in his courtroom are hearing that three or four shots were fired near the entrance of the courthouse and that the victim may have been an officer who was handling security.
Criminal defence lawyer Will Jaksa told the Star via Twitter while on lockdown that people in the hallways on the second floor of the courthouse were “scrambling” into rooms on that floor. He was locked down in courtroom 202

“Cops bravely went running towards the gunshots,” Jaksa wrote.
Court staff were being updated by administration and the latest unconfirmed update was that “someone came into the building shooting . . . An officer was taken away by ambulance,” he said.
Peel police were not immediately available to confirm this information.
The Star’s Kenyon Wallace and Rachel Mendleson are inside the courthouse and are also on lockdown. They saw a police officer in uniform taken to an ambulance out the front entrance.
One witness told the Star she saw a man lying on the ground in a pool of blood.
A police tactical team is on scene, along with more than a dozen police cruisers that have blocked and three ambulances.