Police briefly pursued suspects in Cabbagetown (Toronto Star code word for Regent Park) today after a man was rushed to hospital with at least one life-threatening shotgun wound to the stomach.No word yet on whether they were members of the University of Toronto gun club.
A conscious 19-year-old man was taken to hospital on an emergency run, said Toronto EMS.
Earlier in the day, two men walked into St. Michael’s Hospital with minor gunshot wounds to the neck and hip.
The teens, 16 and 18 years old, were uncooperative, but said they’d been shot in the area of Dundas St. E. and Ontario St. around 7 a.m., Marshall said.
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RELATED: Meanwhile... up on Eglinton West
I'm afraid Nathaniel and Barrington are going to have to repeat "Mugging 101".
Two men looking to make a quick score early Thursday morning spotted a 17-year-old exiting Eglinton West Subway, south of Allen Rd., around 1:15 a.m., grabbed him and brandished a knife, said Toronto police.**********
The teen might have been an easy target, but they failed to notice one significant detail: They launched their attack directly in front of a police station.
UPDATE: Unlucky number 50
The victim, whose name was not immediately released, becomes the city's 50th homicide of the year.**********
"He was known to police," Det.-Sgt. Bill Vieira said last night, adding he was unable to offer much about the latest murder because investigators were still interviewing witnesses and trying to find the dead youth's family.
LAST WORD: The forgotten man
Kimel Foster had the bad luck to be gunned down the same weekend as 11 year old Ephraim Brown... but at least his family will remember him.
"His life was abruptly ended by an assassin," Pastor Orim M. Meikle said in a eulogy.
"Young black men are killing each other. It's not the Chinese that are doing it. It's not the Italians. It's our own," he said.
"Time is running out and there seems to be no answer," Meikle said. "We need to put these guns down."
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