"No information on suspects was immediately provided for either incident. Police said there was currently nothing to suggest the two shootings are linked."Two shootings, Jimmy Olsen? What about the other three? And instead of putting up the metaphorical yellow barrier tape... an actual "professional" journalist might enquire about "points of commonality" between these five Toronto area shootings that have occurred recently.
Unless, of course, they really don't want to know.
**********
RELATED: You call yourselves a tabloid?
Shame on you...
"Bullets have been flying in THE NORTHWEST END of the city all week. In all, five shootings in as many days have left two dead and five injured. “Up to 10 gunshots were heard,” Kwong said. “And MALES WERE SEEN RUNNING in all directions, but we’re not sure if they were involved."Hoodied males were seen running in the northwest end of the city? Get out your decoder rings.
**********
UPDATE: Is Chief Saunders lying to us...
...or is he just really bad at math?
"Gunfire rang out at five different locations in Toronto overnight, sending a number of people to hospital with various injuries."That's five new shootings, not to be confused with the five I refer to above. But that's not what the man in charge of Toronto cops is saying...
Police Chief Mark Saunders told CP24, “Last night we had a couple shootings and we have resources on it right now to figure out exactly who has caused the shootings to occur."Spoken like a social worker, Chief. Time to head off to some international law & order junket and soak up some sunshine.
**********
LAST WORD: The number don't lie
"So far in 2016, there have been a total of 330 shootings in Toronto, which is up 52.8 per cent from this point in 2015."No comment as of yet from the Toronto chapter of "Black Lives Matter."