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Sunday 2 October 2011
A violent long weekend in T.O.
A violent long weekend in T.O.
By Chris Doucette
Emergency personnel attend to the victim of a stabbing early Monday on Wantanopa Cr. (MANNY RODRIGUES PHOTO)
Three men were shot and three others suffered stab wounds in violence overnight Sunday that marred the last long weekend of the summer.
The two worst incidents — a triple shooting and a serious stabbing — happened in Scarborough not far from where a man was nearly assasinated by gunmen only 24 hours earlier.
“This violence were mostly targetted, not random, so it’s important to keep that in perspective,” Toronto Police Const. Tony Vella said Monday. “This was not a typical night in the city.”
In the most brazen incident, Vella said gunfire erupted around 9:20 p.m. Sunday on Lawrence Ave. E., just west of Orton Park Rd., injuring three youths.
Workers at a nearby Domino’s Pizza called 911 after an 18-year-old man stumbled into the shop bleeding from his lower back.
Vella said two other men, 18 and 20, were found in the area with gunshot wounds to their legs.
It’s believed the trio were on a park bench when another group of youths approached and opened fire.
The gunmen ran off, disappearing behind a nearby building. No arrests were made.
Investigators will look into any possible connections to the brash shooting that occurred just before midnight Saturday at Markham and Ellesmere Rds., only a few blocks away.
A man was hit multiple times when two gunmen — one armed with a machine gun — riddled a car with bullets.
Barely a block southwest of the gas station where that gang-style shooting happened, a 25-year-old man was viciously stabbed in his neck, shoulder and chest shortly before 2 a.m. on Monday, on Wantanopa Cr.
He suffered life-threatening injuries and was rushed to Sunnybrook hospital where he underwent surgery.
A suspect was arrested soon after at a residence on Orton Park Rd. Brennan Kelly, 25, is charged with aggravated assault and attempted murder.
Earlier on Sunday, around 9 p.m., a 42-year-old man was stabbed at 1016 O’Connor Dr., a lowrise apartment building near St. Clair Ave. E. He’s expected to be okay.
A 30-year-old neighbour was arrested. He’s charged with aggravated assault, assault with a weapon and failure to comply with a probation order.
Around 11:35 p.m. Sunday, a man, 46, was hurt in a knifepoint robbery across the city in Etobicoke.
Three young thugs approached him at a TTC bus shelter, near Rathburn Rd. and The East Mall, and demanded his wallet, Vella explained. The man refused and was stabbed.
His injuries are not life-threatening. No arrests were made.
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