Mom picking up child from daycare gets caught up in drive-by shooting near Fairview Mall
Posted February 24, 2023 7:36 am.
Last Updated February 24, 2023 11:10 am.
It was a frightening ordeal for a mother who police say was on her way to pick up her child from daycare, when her car was struck by bullets near Fairview Mall on Thursday afternoon.
Toronto police responded to the scene near Fairview Mall Drive and Sheppard Avenue East around 3:15 p.m. after receiving reports of shots fired in the area. The shooting did not take place at the mall.
The woman apparently saw the gunman in another car start to open fire. At this point, the child wasn’t picked up yet.
Police tell CityNews the bullets tore through the front passenger door of her vehicle and say the woman later found her car to be damaged by gunfire.
Investigators are not sure if the gunman who was in another car was aiming at her or aiming at someone else, and the woman’s vehicle just happened to be in the line of fire.
The gunman was reported to be wearing a blue hoodie and was one of several males in a blue car that raced off.
No injuries were reported.
