30 January 2017

If this WAS just one of those...

...crazy random things that happens in peace-lovin' Hogtown... I'm pattin' myself on the back for taking to the lifeboats back in 2001...
••• TORONTO ••• Homicide detectives are now sweeping the streets near George Brown College's St. James campus following a fatal shooting along George Street, between Adelaide and Richmond around 2:40 p.m.

"I see a guy standing over another guy on the sidewalk and he's firing into him repeatedly." Police say it's not yet known whether this was a targeted shooting.
That's T•dot's third murder of 2017.

Three, oops ... spoke too soon... five murders in January...theatre fodder
41-year-old Anthony Earl Smith and 24-year-old Dylan Gill
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UPDATE: Victim #3 identified...
A man killed in a mid-afternoon shooting Monday has been identified as a 39-year-old from Quebec. Sources told CP24 the victim, Anastasios Leventis, is believed to be linked to the (aboriginal) drug trade and that he was targeted in what sources said was a gang-related shooting.
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UPDATE2: And Ali makes 4...
Toronto police are investigating after an 18-year-old man was shot and killed in Regent Park. The man, who police have identified as Ali Rizeig, was shot multiple times outside a townhouse on Gerrard.
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UPDATE3: Missed jailhouse murder... that's 5
Officers responded to an assault at the Toronto South Detention Centre on January 26th at 6:30 pm after a fight broke out between two inmates. Victor Ogundipe 41, was rushed to hospital where he later succumbed to his injuries.
As befits Toronto's rich cultural diversity, all 5 individuals are from various minority communities.

Just more fodder for Toronto's thriving artistic community... click on picture above for details.