TORONTO — Bullets riddle the garage door of an apartment building in the city’s north-west end near Keele Street and Lawrence Avenue.
It’s the aftermath of a shooting that happened at around 11 p.m. Thursday, sending two men to hospital, one with life-threatening injuries.
One neighbour told Global News it sounded “like fireworks went off.”
This incident makes it the fifth consecutive night of gunfire in Toronto.
Mark Pugash, a spokesperson for the Toronto Police acknowledges the city is experiencing a spike in gun crime.
“We do see from time to time spikes and we analyze them, we respond, we move our resources around to where they’ll do the most good and we put a lot of effort into figuring out why it’s happening,” he said.
Just two hours after the first shooting incident, there was more gunfire Friday morning. This time it was an argument at a McDonald’s restaurant on Yonge street that spilled onto the street where police said one man shot another one. The victim is currently recovering on hospital.
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Toronto Mayor John Tory was asked about this recent spike in gun violence at the Canadian National Exhibition Friday.
He reiterated that the city is safe but that, “our challenge, of course, all of us, the police, those of us in public life, and community leaders and average citizens, is to keep it safe.”
The mayor points to gang activity and the illegal gun trade that continue to plague the city.
But Mark Pugash, speaking for the Toronto Police, wants to remind the public that Toronto is still the safest big city in North America, adding, “it’s just that low crime doesn’t mean no crime.”
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