Police are investigating after two folks have been fatally shot late Saturday night time in north Etobicoke.
Toronto Police Service (TPS) mentioned they have been referred to as to the Rexdale space, close to Kipling Avenue and Mount Olive Drive, at 11:41 p.m. on Saturday night time for experiences of a taking pictures.
In a information launch, TPS mentioned {that a} group of individuals drove as much as one other group and photographs have been fired.
A person from the opposite group, was pronounced lifeless on the scene, they mentioned.
The primary group then fled the scene of their automobile.
Toronto police initially mentioned that officers on the scene discovered a person in his 20s with gunshot wounds.
Forensic investigators are actually at that scene.
At 11:53 p.m., police acquired various 911 calls and attended one other scene within the Jamestown space at Martin Grove Street and Finch Avenue West.
There, they situated the automobile that was allegedly concerned within the Rexdale taking pictures in addition to a person who had been shot. The sufferer was taken to hospital and pronounced lifeless.
Throughout an interview with CP24 on Sunday morning, TPS media officer Const. Victor Kwong mentioned that they’re conscious of not less than two individuals who turned up on the hospital with “various gunshot accidents starting from non-life-threatening to life-threatening.”
“In totality, now we have murder quantity 51 and 52 for this yr, and we even have two further injured by gunshot,” Kwong mentioned, including extra particulars in regards to the victims are usually not being launched right now as they’re engaged on notifying subsequent of kin.
Kwong went on to say that at this level police are working to find out what number of weapons have been concerned within the taking pictures and “what number of totally different folks fired.”
He referred to as the investigation “intensive,” pointing to the 2 totally different crime scenes.
“It’ll take us some time to kind this out,” he mentioned.
Toronto police proceed to research a Sept. 23 taking pictures close to Kipling Avenue and Mount Olive Drive. (Simon Sheehan/CP24)
Anybody with data is urged to contact Toronto police at 416-808-2300, or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-8477 (TIPS) or www.222tips.com.
