Police Search For Suspects In Shootings
Posted September 2, 2010 6:41 am.
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Just hours after an innocent woman was shot in the shoulder while sitting on the front step of a home in the Lawrence and Allen Road area, shots rang out again, this time on Sherbourne Street.
The most recent shooting happened inside an apartment building at 251 Sherbourne St. just north of Dundas around 2:30am Thursday. One of the bullets went into a third floor apartment.
Luckily, no injuries were reported and so far no victims have turned up in hospital.
Authorities are still trying to determine how many people were involved in the gunplay and track down those suspects.
This incident happened just over 12 hours after a woman in her 40s was struck by a stray bullet while out front of a home at 23 Cather Cres., just after 3:30pm Wednesday.
“Right now it looks like she was just sitting there with her friend. Her friend just stepped into the house for a moment, I believe perhaps to put on a pot of tea, and she was on a step by herself,” Staff Sgt. Paul MacIntyre of Toronto Police explained.
“Certainly if someone is sitting on the front step of a home and is hit by what we may call a stray bullet that’s particularly alarming to us.”
The victim was taken to hospital with a gunshot wound in her shoulder and is expected to be ok.
Shots rang out again, not too far away, at Flemington Road and Edengarth Court. Authorities haven’t said if the shootings are connected.
On Tues. Aug. 24, 24-year-old Randy Anthony Malcolm was shot to death at 41 Cather Cres. Police are still searching for a suspect.
The friend of the woman who was shot in the neck Wednesday, who only wanted to be identified as Maria, said she’s frightened for her children and plans to move away from the area.
“I have to leave, what else can I do,” she said.
“I’m scared.”
