Arrest made in 2024 shooting at facility owned by GIP, sister company of waste giant GFL

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York Regional Police have made an arrest in connection to a 2024 shooting at a Green Infrastructure Partners (GIP) industrial lot in Vaughan, Ont. a suburb north of Toronto.

Brandon Morgan, 29, was arrested on April 25 and charged with reckless discharge of a firearm, mischief to property over $5,000 and possession of a firearm contrary to a prohibition order, Constable Kevin Nebrija confirmed.

He has been remanded into custody and will be appear for a bail hearing on April 30.

It is alleged that on June 1, 2024, at around 12:30 a.m., Mr. Morgan opened fire on the GIP maintenance facility, spraying the front door, windows and two vehicles with bullets.

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The shooting was the first in a string of attacks against Canadian waste giant GFL Environmental Inc. and its sister construction company, Green Infrastructure Partners (GIP) that occurred over a series of months last year.

A month after the Vaughan shooting, there were two more incidents: Six dump trucks were set on fire at the same GIP lot and then, shortly after, GIP construction equipment was set ablaze at a site adjacent to the highway.

Then in late September, a gunman fired on the Rosedale home of Patrick Dovigi, GFL’s founder. An hour later, the front door of former GFL senior vice-president Ted Manziaris, who still consults for GIP, was shot at nine times. Later that fall, someone shot out the glass entrance to a GFL office in the north end of Toronto.

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Mr. Morgan has not been charged in connection to any other incident.

GFL, which is traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange, is headquartered in Vaughan.

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