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Sisters of Toronto school shooting victim Jordan Manners targeted in North York hit-and-run

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Mother of Jordan Manners says she’s lucky she didn’t lose 2 more children after bizarre incident
WATCH ABOVE: Mother of Jordan Manners says she’s lucky she didn’t lose two more children after bizarre incident. Catherine McDonald reports – Jul 5, 2017

Three people were injured late Tuesday, including the sisters of a Toronto school shooting victim, after a car drove into the group of pedestrians on a north-end Toronto sidewalk in what police say appears to have been a deliberate attack.

Police say the vehicle jumped the curb and struck the pedestrians on a sidewalk at about 10:15 p.m. near Don Mills Road East and Sheppard Avenue East.

Const. David Hopkinson says the car fled the scene before emergency crews arrived and left a trail of tire marks carved into the grass where it left the street and damaged a fence.

Det. Mattew Routh says police believe the group was targeted and that the driver and the victims know each other.

Two of the victims were sisters of Jordan Manners, a 15-year-old boy killed after a shooting at C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute in Toronto on May 23, 2007.

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“I could have lost my two daughters last night like I lost Jordan,” Loreen Small, their mother, told Global News Wednesday.

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“How lucky am I that they are both still here? For me to go through what I went through with Jordan — how lucky am I?”

Small said a neighbour had helped get one of the sisters out of the way of the moving vehicle.

“If it wasn’t for him, I could have lost my daughter last night,” she said.

One person was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries while the others were treated at the scene for minor injuries.

The vehicle, believed to be a gold or brown BMW, fled the scene.

Police said the driver has been identified as 29-year-old Randy Amofa. He is wanted for two counts of attempted murder, four counts of assault with a weapon, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, threaten death, drive disqualified and fail to comply probation.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police immediately at 416-808-3300 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).

With files from The Canadian Press

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