The 29-year-old officer also briefly visited 53 Division, where he works in the major crime unit, to see colleagues before heading home, a police spokesperson said.

The plainclothes officer was shot in the abdomen by a man who got out of a vehicle police had stopped, two sources with knowledge of the investigation said

A Toronto police officer is recovering in hospital after being shot in the abdomen while stopping a vehicle near Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue on Wednesday, police say. “He’s doing well and the injuries are not life-threatening,” Toronto police Chief Myron Demkiw told reporters outside Sunnybrook Hospital.