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Re: Toronto Eaton Centre shooting kills 1, injures 7
Toronto police have confirmed that a Saturday evening shooting in the Eaton Centre has left one man dead and seven others injured.
Const. Victor Kwong said that one victim was pronounced dead at the downtown shopping mall. Kwong listed the genders and conditions of all eight victims and the ages of three, which are as follows:
Male, 25, dead
Male, 20, critical condition
Male, 13, critical condition
Female, no age given, serious condition
Male, no age given, serious condition
Female, no age given, serious condition
Pregnant female, no age given, went into labour after being knocked down
Female, no age given, grazed by bullet
Toronto police chief Bill Blair told a group of reporters that officers are in the early stages of their investigation and that what they share with the public is likely to change.
"I want my officers to have the time to gather all of the evidence," said Blair, adding that investigators will obtain footage from security cameras in the mall and speak to witnesses that come forward.
Most of the other victims — including the young boy — were likely innocent bystanders, he said.
The only exception is likely the man who was killed, Blair said.
"The nature of those wounds do indicate that that individual was targeted," he said.
One reporter asked if Blair was reminded of the Boxing Day 2005 shooting death of Jane Creba, 15, which took place nearby on Yonge Street.
"Today harkens back to that terrible moment," Blair said. "This is a very serious thing that has happened in a public place in Toronto."
"I believe that every Torontonian is shocked and appalled by this terrible crime."
No suspect in custody
"At this time we do not have the shooter," said Const. Kwong. Investigators have not yet released a description of the suspect, nor clarified whether they are looking for more than one person.
Kwong added that the police have received conflicting reports and are still reviewing multiple videos submitted by the public.
Charlotte Holmgren, an eye-witness who was at the Eaton Centre at the time of the shooting and heard the shots, said that the incident took place in the mall's north end food court.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford spoke to reporters outside the Eaton Centre at about 9:30 p.m. ET.
"As soon as I heard the news I got in my car," he said. "This incident tonight is absolutely terrible. We want to make sure these people are apprehended and arrested."
Ford expressed particular concern over the 13-year-old boy in critical condition.
"It really pulls on my heart strings when you hear something like that," he said, adding that he had spent the afternoon coaching football players around the boy's age.
"I really hope the young man pulls through."
Chaos erupts at the food court
Witnesses who were in the food court when the shooting began told CBC's Amanda Margison that shoppers abandoned everything from strollers to purses as they fled. Others hid beneath tables until police ordered a full evacuation.
One employee in a noodle store told Margison she heard at least five gunshots, as she and several others ran into the storage room and locked themselves inside.
The shopping centre was surrounded by emergency vehicles, as police cordoned off the section of Yonge Street between Queen and Dundas streets.
Videos posted to Twitter showed a man in a stretcher being loaded into the back of an ambulance in the aftermath of the incident, which took place at around 6:30 p.m.
A witness told CBC News that crowds of people ran from the scene with "terror" on their faces.
One witness described seeing at least one person shot, adding that she originally thought she was caught up in a shooting spree.
The Toronto Transit Commission has suspended subway service to Queen and Dundas stations. The Queen and Dundas streetcars were diverted at Church Street to the east and Bay Street to the west to avoid Yonge street.
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Re: Toronto Eaton Centre shooting kills 1, injures 7
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Re: Toronto Eaton Centre shooting kills 1, injures 7
let me guess
dem run outa fries and the person get vex and start shoot
and him get weh pan tap a itComment
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Re: Toronto Eaton Centre shooting kills 1, injures 7
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Jane Kreeba..... let the (racial) games begins...
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Re: Toronto Eaton Centre shooting kills 1, injures 7
scary
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The gunman/men not too bright.
Enough security cameras in that area to record their every move.Comment
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Re: Toronto Eaton Centre shooting kills 1, injures 7
I don't think he cares
mindset is mission accomplished
think reality will register when he is
caught and in prison then
he will find the lord
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Re: Toronto Eaton Centre shooting kills 1, injures 7
Am wondering if the identity of
the shooter/shooters been
revealed any video footage yet
heard that the shooter/shooters
had a personal beef with the deceased
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Re: Toronto Eaton Centre shooting kills 1, injures 7
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: xKs</div><div class="ubbcode-body">.. Jane Kreeba..... let the (racial) games begins...
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And not just that. If they're not Jamaican, they'll be near enough... aye sahComment
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Re: Toronto Eaton Centre shooting kills 1, injures 7
I did read on one site that a witness tweeted that the gunman was a tall black man.
Unconfirmed at this point obviously.Comment
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Re: Toronto Eaton Centre shooting kills 1, injures 7
whole a ppl will see de man, an even kno de man an still keep quiet like dem nuh kno nuttin
mi nuh kno how dem sleep a night. All dem eedyat a duh is mek it hawd fi black ppl roun here.
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Re: Toronto Eaton Centre shooting kills 1, injures 7
Accompanied by his lawyer, the suspect, Christopher Husbands, 23, turned himself in at downtown’s 52 Division early Monday, at about 2:30 a.m.
News of his arrest capped an edgy 36 hours in Toronto after a gunman opened fire in the mall’s crowded food court, early Saturday evening. One man, Ahmed Hassan, 24, was killed and six others hit by bullets.
A 13-year-old victim of the weekend shooting rampage was in a coma in critical condition Monday after surgery for a gunshot wound to his head, a relative said.
Mr. Husbands and Mr. Hassan were meeting at the food court to discuss “turf arrangement” but matters got out of hand and shots were fired, a source said.
Mr. Hassan, is suspected of having gang affiliations. A man with a similar name is facing robbery, assault and unlawful confinement charges in Fort McMurray, Alta.
Mr. Hassan’s mother lives in Alexandra Park, a small social-housing project just west of Toronto’s downtown, a source said.
Adam Vaughan, the Toronto city councillors whose ward includes Alexandra Park, said the Eaton Centre shooting wasn’t an isolated incident.
“I wish that were true,” he said. “You can’t point to a date on a calendar or an event on a rap sheet and say that’s what caused this. It is part of an intensifying rivalry that defies geographic description in the same way it defies racial description,” he said.
Mr. Vaughan said the Eaton Centre shooting followed about three months of escalating violence involving youths from Alexandra Park and Regent Park, the city’s largest public-housing complex, located east of downtown.
But he stressed that the traditional lines separating gangsters in the two neighbourhoods have blurred, especially since the massive revitalization of Regent Park scattered families from that neighbourhood to other social-housing projects.
The return of some recently released criminals convicted and imprisoned in connection with Toronto's summer of the gun in 2005 has exacerbated the troubles, he added.
“The old way of looking at the challenge we’re facing is to say it was Alex Park v. Regent Park, but it has evolved in recent years and changed dramatically,” he said. “The families live on both sides of Yonge Street … “I don’t know the rival groups can tell each other apart. When you hear of an incident, the networks overlap.”
There was a shooting in Alexandra Park about three hours before gunshots rang out at the Eaton Centre.
Mike Spicer said he heard gunshots and saw a man running east -- in the direction of the Eaton Centre -- while holding a gun. The man was running toward Spadina on a street several blocks south of College Street, Mr. Spicer said.
“We heard three shots fired, and we just said, ‘Oh, it sounds like a gun,’” he said. “And all three of us looked that were in the car and there was a guy running down the street toward us with a gun.”
He said the man was holding a handgun in his right hand as he ran. He described him as black and said he was wearing a grey hoodie and loose-fitting black jeans.
Police have so far declined to comment on reports of the Spadina-area shooting.
Mr. Vaughan said it’s not clear how, or if, the two incidents are related. “For a while it looked like the two were directly connected, but they are part of the same issue we’ve been managing, or trying to manage, without any resources,” he said. “But it’s unclear now how intricately the two are related.”
Mr. Husbands is scheduled to appear at Old City Hall courthouse this afternoon.
On Sunday, acting deputy police chief Jeff McGuire had described the suspect as “one idiot with a gun.”
A 28-year-old pregnant woman went into labour after she was trampled as a frenzied stampede of shoppers tried to exit the mall. She didn’t give birth and recovered Sunday.
The terrifying incident follows a rise in the number of shootings in Toronto this year, after years of decline.
It also resonated in Toronto because of the Boxing Day 2005 shooting, when 15-year-old Jane Creba died a few blocks from the Eaton Centre after being struck by a stray bullet from a gang-related shootout.When its hot in the jungle of peace I go swimming in the ocean of love.....Comment
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Re: Toronto Eaton Centre shooting kills 1, injures 7
how do yuh find a lawyer dem time a nite deh?
A suh dem bwoy have dem pan speed dial suh?Comment
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