FOG BLOG CANADA NEWS LOG: SHOOTING AT TORONTO SCHOOL, SCHOOLS LOCKED DOWN AND SUSPECT DEAD!

Suspect dead, shot by police after Toronto schools locked down over reports of man with rifle 'There is no wider threat to public safety,' police said in tweet Thursday afternoon Suspect dead after confronting police, says Toronto Police Chief James Ramer

• Chief won't say more, citing investigation by Ontario's police watchdog

• Chief credits quick response to alert residents who called 9-1-1

• Schools went into lockdown as precaution, Ramer says

• "I'm not aware of any other injuries that were sustained by anyone this afternoon," chief says

A man is dead after being shot by police after several schools were forced into lockdown in Toronto Thursday following reports of a person in the area with a rifle.

Toronto police said they were called to the area near Maberley Crescent and Oxhorn Road in Port Union shortly before 1 p.m. on Thursday.

Police said they located the man, who they described as in his late teens or early 20s, wearing a white ball hat and a three-quarter length coat.

Officers shot the man and paramedics are on the scene, police say.

"There is no wider threat to public safety," police said shortly after 2 p.m.