TORONTO ••• One person is dead and two others remain in hospital after gunfire erupted in broad daylight in the area of Queen Street West and Peter Street, Saturday evening.**********
“When I heard the first gunshot I looked outside because I was in a streetcar and I saw one guy in a white shirt, a black man, fall to the ground."
UPDATE: Don't be black, don't be black...
GAWWWDAMMMMITTT!
Urban assassins apparently learning from their mistakes... bodycount rises to two...
Smoke Dawg was Jamaican and a member of the Halal Gang, made up of him along with Puffy L’z, Mo-G, and SAFE. Smoke Dawg had ties with Drake’s OVO and served as the opening act on the superstar’s Boy Meets World European tour last year.Second dead man identified...
The two men, both from Toronto, were formally identified by police Sunday as 21-year-old Jahvante Smart and 28-year-old Ernest Modekwe. According to family and friends, Smart was a rising rapper who went by the stage name “Smoke Dawg,” while Modekwe was a music brand manager who was also known as “Kosi.”That's the 49th and 50th homicides of 2018. According to police statistics, there have been 199 shootings in the city as of June 25.
I blame the National Rapper Association.
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COMPARE AND CONTRAST: Canada's post-national...
...social justice broadcaster...
...not too big on identifying information...but there are pictures of... count 'em... eight very caucasian people throughout the article...Two men are now dead following a "brazen" daylight shooting in Toronto's downtown entertainment district on Saturday evening. One of the two men was believed to be in his 20s, while the woman is believed to be in her 30s.I had to find another source, but, fwiw, the 37 year-old woman involved is an innocent bystander who caught a stray.
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LAST WORD: Mayor Tory says he's "damn mad"...
...maybe he should have a word with his buddy Drake...
Mayor John Tory actually presented Aubrey “Drake” Graham with a key to the city in February 2016 — about six months after two people were shot to death during the rapper’s OVO Fest after-party at Muzik nightclub, another unsolved crime the rapper has stayed silent on despite Crime Stoppers urging him to ask witnesses to come forward.Does Drake have space to get another memorial tattoo?
Nota Bene... Apparently no spokes-warriors from Black Lives Matter, Toronto were available for comment.