22-year-old man injured in targeted shooting outside Vaughan home

A 22-year-old man is in hospital following a shooting outside a home in Vaughan in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

York Regional Police were called to the area of Martin Grove and Andrew Park for a shooting around 1:45 a.m.

Staff Sgt. Marc Hilliker told reporters the victim was outside in the driveway when a dark coloured Porsche SUV pulled up in front of the home with at least two suspects inside.

A suspect wearing a balaclava got out of the vehicle and opened fire, letting off several rounds of bullets. The suspects then drove away from the scene in an unknown direction.

The victim went back inside the home and called 9-1-1 himself. When police arrived they found him suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries and is expected to recover.

A neighbourhood resident that did not want to be identified tells CityNews she heard three to four gunshots that woke her up.

“It sounded like pops, literally almost like fireworks,” she said. “[It’s] kind of scary … it kind of freaked me out.”

Another neighbour who has lived on the street for 45 years says he’s heard about cars being stolen, but there’s never been a shooting in the area before.

“It’s a nice quiet street, we have a school [close by] … it’s scary,” said Bruno.

In response to concerns about neighbourhood safety, Hilliker said there is no apparent threat to public safety.

“We can appreciate the risk of shootings in residential areas as well as close to schools. We can reassure everyone that this does appear to be a targeted shooting,” said Hilliker, adding that there will be an increased police presence in the neighbourhood for several weeks.

“As disturbing and upsetting as a shooting is, know that it wasn’t on the street, it wasn’t a moving gun battle – it was targeted, on the person’s property, on the driveway and that was the intended victim.”

Police are asking anyone with dashcam or surveillance footage to come forward.