A man is now in police custody and the Special Investigations Unit has been called in, after a bizarre incident inside a convenience store at Sherbourne and Dundas streets.
Cops were called to the area around 7:45pm Wednesday night, after witnesses said one man was attacking another.
Toronto police tell Newstalk 1010 that when officers arrived, they spotted a knife-wielding man chasing another man, inside Sam's Food Store.
"The officers ordered the man with the knife to drop the knife and to stop. He turned towards the officers and began to advance. The officers were equipped with a less lethal shotgun equipped with a sock round, so they deployed that, incapacitating the man. They arrested him. He's been taken to hospital as we do with anyone we use these tools on, just to be checked out."
The suspect was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. There are unconfirmed reports circulating that he may have suffered a broken arm, but how that might have happened is unclear. No one else was hurt.
The officer Newstalk 1010 spoke with explained that the sock gun discharges some sort of bean bag.
Speaking to our sister station CP24, the store owner says the suspect is a regular customer, so he can't understand why he would bring a knife inside the store. He says police tried to de-escalate the situation calmly.
"They tried to calm him down, they say throw the knife," says store owner Khuram Aftab. "The video I have seen it. Even when they say throw the gun, so he step up towards the police with the knife. So certainly the police they have to protect themself and they were trying to say calm down, get down, leave the knife, but you know, he was not listening."
There store was equipped with surveillance video, which will become evidence in the case.
The store will remain closed to the public, until the SIU completes its investigation.