7 Victims Of Extremely Concerning Toronto Shot Rage Survive Police

The victims injured Sunday were a group of people attending an unauthorized car rally in a Scarborough car park, a man in an apartment building and teenagers in a mansion complex standing near an adjacent playground.
Toronto Police.  Steve Watts says two teenagers, aged 15 and 17, along with four other men and a woman who were shot dead Sunday, are still recovering in hospital, with the injuries considered serious but not life-threatening.
Watts said detectives “are working to identify any links” between the incidents, but information is scarce as they are “less than a day away” from the shootings.
“These were different events in different locations,” Watts told reporters outside Toronto Police Headquarters on Monday.  “I do not feel that the general public is in significant danger associated with these events.”
Another man, who was shot near 31 Lotherton Pathway, south of Lawrence West Avenue at 4:24 p.m., succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Watts said more information about the homicide would be released Monday afternoon.
No suspects have been arrested in any of the incidents so far, and police have given a vague description of the vehicle to only one of them.
CP24 learned that the shooting at an unauthorized rally on McCowan Street was originally planned at Pickering, but Durham District Police denied access to Pickering and the drivers went to Scarborough.
Asked why Toronto police did not block access to the site on McCowan Road, Watts said little.
“I understand we were notified later in the afternoon that the event was moving west and that is all I will say to that.”
Toronto Mayor John Tori said Sunday’s shooting incidents in which eight people were injured by gunfire over an eight-hour period, including a confirmed homicide across the city, were “extremely worrying.”
“Any armed violence in our city is unacceptable and the fact that there have been several shootings in our city this weekend, including one in which two young boys were killed, is extremely worrying,” Tori said in a statement sent to CP24 early in the morning. Monday.  “I have spoken to Chief Ramer and I know that the police are working to resolve any case and to ensure that those involved in armed violence in our city are brought to justice.”
Tori said he supported police efforts as well as federal initiatives to freeze arms sales and ban the private ownership of most semi-automatic firearms.
 “I will continue to support the police – including our guns and our gangs – in doing what they can to stop armed violence, including further suppression of the flow of illegal weapons into Canada and the adoption of Canadian Government arms reform ».  said Tori.  “I will continue to support the investments that our city has made and that all governments should make to children and families by providing programs that work to address the roots of armed violence.”
He urged anyone who witnessed any of the incidents to contact the police or Crime Stoppers.
Watts said his officers had clear evidence that most of the weapons used in the Toronto shootings came from the United States and were smuggled across the border.
“The issue of gun violence in Toronto is specifically imported weapons of crime from the United States.”
He said an acquisition similar to the one made in 2019 would do little to remove these weapons from the road.
“A repurchase program is the opposite of American weapons.  “No one is going to hand over an American crime weapon for a takeover program, you are using this weapon for your own illegal purposes.”

title: “7 Victims Of Extremely Concerning Toronto Shot Rage Survive Police " ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-20” author: “Neal Sampogna”

The victims injured Sunday were a group of people attending an unauthorized car rally in a Scarborough car park, a man in an apartment building and teenagers in a mansion complex standing near an adjacent playground.
Toronto Police.  Steve Watts says two teenagers, aged 15 and 17, along with four other men and a woman who were shot dead Sunday, are still recovering in hospital, with the injuries considered serious but not life-threatening.
Watts said detectives “are working to identify any links” between the incidents, but information is scarce as they are “less than a day away” from the shootings.
“These were different events in different locations,” Watts told reporters outside Toronto Police Headquarters on Monday.  “I do not feel that the general public is in significant danger associated with these events.”
Another man, who was shot near 31 Lotherton Pathway, south of Lawrence West Avenue at 4:24 p.m., succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.
No suspects have been arrested in any of the incidents so far, and police have given a vague description of the vehicle to only one of them.
CP24 learned that the shooting at an unauthorized rally on McCowan Street was originally planned at Pickering, but Durham District Police denied access to Pickering and the drivers went to Scarborough.
Asked why Toronto police did not block access to the site on McCowan Road, Watts said little.
“I understand we were notified later in the afternoon that the event was moving west and that is all I will say to that.”
Toronto Mayor John Tori said Sunday’s shooting incidents in which eight people were injured by gunfire over an eight-hour period, including a confirmed homicide across the city, were “extremely worrying.”
“Any armed violence in our city is unacceptable and the fact that there have been several shootings in our city this weekend, including one in which two young boys were killed, is extremely worrying,” Tori said in a statement sent to CP24 early in the morning. Monday.  “I have spoken to Chief Ramer and I know that the police are working to resolve any case and to ensure that those involved in armed violence in our city are brought to justice.”
Tori said he supported police efforts as well as federal initiatives to freeze arms sales and ban the private ownership of most semi-automatic firearms.
 “I will continue to support the police – including our guns and our gangs – in doing what they can to stop armed violence, including further suppression of the flow of illegal weapons into Canada and the adoption of Canadian Government arms reform ».  said Tori.  “I will continue to support the investments that our city has made and that all governments should make to children and families by providing programs that work to address the roots of armed violence.”
He urged anyone who witnessed any of the incidents to contact the police or Crime Stoppers.
Watts said his officers had clear evidence that most of the weapons used in the Toronto shootings came from the United States and were smuggled across the border.
“The issue of gun violence in Toronto is specifically imported weapons of crime from the United States.”
He said an acquisition similar to the one made in 2019 would do little to remove these weapons from the road.
“A repurchase program is the opposite of American weapons.  “No one is going to hand over an American crime weapon for a takeover program, you are using this weapon for your own illegal purposes.”