Fourteen people, including a young girl, were shot near downtown Toronto, police in Canada’s biggest city said on Sunday, with one person killed and the gunman also dead.
The young girl was in a critical condition, Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders said.
“We are looking at all possible motives… and not closing any doors,” Saunders told reporters at the site of the shooting.
Paramedics, firefighters and police converged on the shooting in Toronto’s east end, which has many popular restaurants, cafes and shops.
Witnesses said they heard 25 gunshots
Police said the gunman had used a handgun. Earlier reports said nine people had been shot.
Reports of gunfire in the city’s Greektown neighborhood began at 10pm local time, CityNews.com said.
Witnesses said they heard 25 gunshots, the news website reported.
Toronto is grappling with a sharp rise in gun violence this year. Deaths from gun violence in the city jumped 53 percent to 26 so far in 2018 from the same period last year, police data last week showed, with the number of shootings rising 13 percent.
Toronto deployed about 200 police officers from July 20 in response to the recent spate in shootings, which city officials have blamed on gang violence.
Toronto Mayor John Tory told reporters that the city has a gun problem and guns were too readily available to too many people.
I can’t wait for the 50 ( or more ) white helmet TERRORIST being allowed into Canada, from Syria..that should spice things up even more.
Can’t be
Canada allegedly has very strict “gun control laws”
No, that’s Chicago.
“…..Toronto is grappling with a sharp rise in gun violence this year……”
Maybe someone is leaving crates full of handguns in dark alleys like they do in Chicago.
“….the recent spate in shootings, which city officials have blamed on gang violence…..”
Are these gangs comprised of Canadian citizens, or is the “open border” crowd destroying your country too?
1 out of 14…
I’d have to say this person should have done a little more homework.
Maybe an extra credit target assignment.
Video games are not real shooter events….
But we have more important issues…
Like Trump sending all caps threats to N Korea and a Mormon with gunz in Fallon NV.
Yeah…
Just an avalanche and tidal wave of not stop bullsht.
I need a beer.
My bullsht meter has just about pegged out.
And itz only Monday.