TORONTO - A 15-year-old girl is in hospital with a gunshot wound to her abdomen that witnesses said was fired by another young girl Sunday afternoon.
Police were called at 1:40 p.m. to the Baycrest Arena, in the Bathurst St. and Wilson Ave. area, after reports of two shots being fired.
Mike, who didn’t want his last name used, said he was driving to the arena with his daughter Lauren, 15, when the incident happened.
He said he saw two girls beating up another girl.
“I thought they were play fighting. Then I realized it was much more serious. I’m shocked that my daughter would see this on a Sunday afternoon in broad daylight,” Mike said after being interviewed by police.
Lauren said she has never been so scared in her life.
“The victim was on the ground getting kicked and beaten and then one of the girls stepped back and took out a gun and fired twice,” Lauren said.
Steven Okolea was coming home from church when the shooting happened.
“I couldn’t believe it was girls involved,” he said.
Toronto Police Insp. Sonia Thomas said at the scene that there were no descriptions of the two girls.
The injured teen was taken to Sunnybrook hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Staff-Sgt. Mike Ervick said.
